[aculeus]

This UK site seems to be the first to claim the latest scare "study" is erroneous.

[aculeus]

Calling all "mathophilic" Freepers.

[Greeklawyer]

Sarcasm on

Please donate generously. We need more money to correct our flawed study.

Sarcasm off

[Freee-dame]

bump

[Illbay]

Dovetail's nicely with John Stossel's report last night on ABC.

FWIW, here's the bottom line (which is, more than anything, related to the "bottom line"): (1) Scary news sells better than anything; (2) People want things condensed for them so they don't have to think. This is even true of corporate CEOs and whatnot. (3) All this leads to the opportunity for GROSS mischaracterizations like this.

Stossel mentioned that after all the hoopla surrounding the breast implant flap, there is still not one, single shred of evidence that those things caused illness. Tell that to Dow.

[Free the USA]

Junk science bump

[Kermit]

For some reason, people have been trying to nail Hormone Therapy for 30 years. Every couple of years CBS would broadcast a story claiming HRT caused breast cancer. It was nonsense then and it's nonsense now. What they haven't told you is that the estrogen-only arm of the study wasn't stopped, the estrogen-progesterone arm was stopped. They've known about progesterone forever.