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To: thoughtomator
And it is also fair for us to call them out on trying to profiteer by creating health scares.

And you have proof of that
36 posted on 02/01/2005 6:15:44 PM PST by uncbob
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To: uncbob

In the article itself... 9,000 people a year die from it, and because of that they want to screen 14 million? The chances of having this problem are 0.064%, or over 1 in 1555, and that's just of the narrow target range of specific individuals most likely to be affected. To recommend 14 million scans (and presumably another 2 million a year or so as new men reach that age) for such an unlikely probability, does not logically follow, unless there is a financial benefit for one party or another in having so many scans done.


37 posted on 02/01/2005 6:25:00 PM PST by thoughtomator (How do you say Berkeley California in Aramaic?)
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