title: The 'complete' idiotype network is an absurd immune system.
abstract: Idiotypic networks have attained the status of unavoidable necessities in the regulation of immune responses. In this article Rod Langman and Mel Cohn contend that the conceptual foundations for such idiotypic networks are formal absurdities.
authors.affiliation: Developmental Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, PO Box 85800, San Diego, California 91238, USA.
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Langman
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cohn