Talk:Polly Matzinger

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" Polly Matzinger's co-author on her 1978 Journal of Experimental Medicine was her dog, Galadriel Mirkwood. (Tolkien fans will recognize an unusual coupling of names – Queen Galadriel, the bearer of the elf-ring Nenya, and Mirkwood, the home to many evil creatures [14].) The editor at the time was not amused and refused to take further papers from Matzinger. " this is my b are lines from -- The liveliest effusion of wit and humor. Jan A. Witkowski Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 26:12, 2001, 747-752 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0968-0004(01)01936-3

This article states that Galadriel Mirkwood was her cat. Cat or dog:

Just to let you know, Matzinger wasn't barred by J Exp Med for 15 years. A quick search of Pubmed will show she published papers in that journal in 1980 and 1991. The paper with "Galadriel Mirkwood" as a coauthor was published in 1978.

--then, follow the wikipedia invocation to be bold and edit! but, I think she was barred at least until the J Exp Med Nov 1991 paper was published, 13 years later; the others were really mainly other people's papers in which Matzinger participated; for J Exp Med to have barred these papers b/c of Matzinger's participation would have been quite peevish. Joewright 06:25, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

crufty
This article seems to include some non-notable details. -- 75.24.105.158 22:29, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article.-- Jreferee 22:32, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Iconoclast
I am restoring this to the lead paragraph as it a) is justified by the text in this article and b) is defining and accurate in distinguishing Matzinger from others and c) succinctly and interestingly sums up what is to follow.Celia Kozlowski (talk) 08:53, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Beyond the Danger Model
There are theorists who are even more radical then Matzinger who see the immune system primarily as a tissue homeostatic system. Three thinkers that come to mind are Zlatko Dembic, Irun R Cohen and Jamie Cunliffe. The latter(Cunliffe) argues that there is no such thing as an immune system at all. That is to say, no evolved innate system for bug hunting. 20 February 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.55.218.167 (talk)