Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader wonders about the construction of the first sentence in this Reuters article. Here goes:

Capsaicin, which makes peppers hot, can cause prostate cancer cells to kill themselves, U.S. and Japanese researchers said on Wednesday.
Capsaicin led 80 percent of human prostate cancer cells growing in mice to commit suicide in a process known as apoptosis, the researchers said.

Okay… Your Maximum Leader gave you the first two sentences. Cell suicide? Your Maximum Leader doesn’t remember cell suicide from biology? According to the (very authoritative - ahem) Wikipedia apoptosis is sort of like a cell suicide. According to this NIH site apoptosis is more like normal “cell death.”

So, Capsaicin appears to cause prostate cancer cells to want to die… They really can’t manage the hot foods one supposes. Of course, one might also wonder if there is a lower rate of rostate cancer among populations that eat more hot peppers (or food prepared with hot peppers) than in those countries with bland food. Your Maximum Leader suggests a study of Mexicans and Norweigians… It would be a veritable smackdown pitting tamales against lutefisk…

Carry on.