[showme_the_Glory]

A little testy today?

[Red_Devil 232]

Now they need to tie it’s use to breast cancer and maybe it’s appeal will fade!

[TruthWillWin]

Not a good news day for pot smokers. First Twinkies go extinct now this.

[EEGator]

Correlation does not equal causation.

[Tublecane]

The only cure is prohibition./s

[beef]

Most of the dopers I have met were not exactly ladies men. Or men's men, for that matter. They were content to drift around in their own little hazy world.

That said, I still think we should make it legal. Protecting them from themselves is costs me too much, in both money and freedom.

[equaviator]

Gentlemen, start your engines!

[tacticalogic]

Why do they always say “increased risk”, but never tell you what the risk was to start with, and how much it increased?

[Nachum]

I know one cancer patient that cannot eat with out her medical marijuana. Nothing else works for her.

[Argus]

Well, that explains Tom Green, anyway.

[dila813]

“Victoria Cortessis, assistant professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles. “So we asked, ‘What is it that young men are doing more frequently that could account for the increased risk?’””

That sounds pretty thin, correlation or causation?

Looks like the found a convenient target to blame. As we see, science and critical thinking is falling apart in our society.

[microgood]

The key to finding out about this study is seeing who funded it.

[exDemMom]

Cortessis and colleagues used interviews to probe recreational drug use among 163 men diagnosed with testicular cancer and 292 healthy men of the same age, and found those who smoked marijuana had double the risk of testicular tumors compared with men who passed on grass. On top of that, their tumors tended to be faster-growing and tougher to treat.

I know this is an esoteric point, but for the type of study they are describing, this is the wrong kind of conclusion.

The conclusion stated here would be appropriate for a study where two groups of patients were being compared (one pot-smoking, one not), and the incidence of various adverse health outcomes were being analyzed. But that's not the study described. They actually determined that it was more likely that someone diagnosed with testicular cancer has a history of smoking pot than someone from the general population. That is important information, but it really does not equate to how much pot smoking increases the risk of testicular cancer.

Maybe the problem is in communicating study results to a non-scientifically trained journalist.

I will say that I do not question the result that pot smoking increases the incidence of testicular cancer. If I recall, marijuana has a far higher content of carcinogens than tobacco.

[grey_whiskers]

"Is this how Lance Armstrong became monolithic?" *PING*.

Thanks, nickcarraway.

Cheers!

[KantianBurke]

Weed seems to have quite a number of negative health effects on young men. Its use also seems to increase the odds of paranoid schizo developing.