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#485 — The New Science of Cancer

Sam Harris speaks with Siddhartha Mukherjee about the science of cancer. They discuss the updated edition of The Emperor of All Maladies, whether cancer is one disease or many, why prevention is so hard, inflammation and air pollution as carcinogens, the myth that cell phones cause cancer, liquid biopsies and Bayesian reasoning, immunotherapy and CAR T cells, drug pricing, the promise of AI in drug discovery, the state of American medical science, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe.

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  #484 — Artificial Intimacy

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  #481 — Sam Harris Receives the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award

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  #480 — The Economics of Everything

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  #479 — When Robots Take Over

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  #478 — The Psychedelic Mind

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  #477 — More From Sam: Iran's Unraveling, The Gaza Information War, AI-Gene…

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  #476 — The Bittersweet Age

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  #475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness

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  #473 — Money, Power, and Moral Failure

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  #472 — Strange Days on the Right

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  #471 — The End of History, Revisited

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  #470 — Democrats at a Crossroads