Haven’t you heard that “there are liars, d&*n liars, and statisticians” — i.e. you can prove anything with statistics.
And you might view things differently if you were one of the ones whose cancer is discovered too late, when it would have been curable, had it been diagnosed early.
I guess I have to end my participation in the thread if the use of inferential statistics in medical research (my minor in grad school) is being summarily rejected. I don’t stick around anti-science threads in general.