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 What’s clear is that depending on how investigators adjust or manipulate or clarify or frame or present data – you choose the verb – they might show differing results. This doesn’t just pertain to data on trauma and helicopters… See more A JAMA Press Briefing on CER, Helicopters and Time for Questions Breast Cancer | cancer screening | Communication | Diagnosis | journalism | Medical News | Oncology (cancer) | Women's Health
Few forms of invasive breast cancer warrant no treatment unless the patient is so old that she is likely to die first of another condition, or the patient prefers to die of the disease.…“Mammograms Spot Cancers That May Not Be Dangerous,” said WebMD, yesterday. This is feel-good news, and largely wishful. See more New Article on Mammography Spawns False Hope That Breast Cancer is Not a Dangerous Disease The new findings have no bearing on whether or not cancer screening is cost-effective or life-saving. What the study does suggest is that med school math requirements should be upped and rigorous, counter to the trend See more What Does it Mean if Primary Care Doctors Get the Answers Wrong About Screening Stats? 
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Related Posts:Happy Thanksgiving!End of Summer Blog-BreakAbout this WeekLive Every Week Like It’s Shark Week, Again!New Hardware, and a Second Start of Summer This week at Scientific American’s Observations, reporter Katherine Harmon asks: Does science need more compelling stories to foster public trust? This excellent question came my way, rephrased on Twitter, as this: “Should scientists fight misleading anecdotes w/ their own?” The @SciAm piece starts like this: The touching stories that advocacy groups are so good at telling—the 49-year old mother whose breast cancer was detected by an early mammogram before it had spread; the 60-year-old neighbor who had a prostate tumor removed thanks to a routine PSA test—should inspire scientists to use anecdotes of their own, argue two doctors from the University of Pennsylvania. So we’ve got a battle metaphor on Twitter (scientists would ‘fight’) while doctors at a prestigious medical school advocate the use of anecdotes to “inspire” (i.e. manipulate) peoples’ views on information. I agree with Katherine Harmon that the question of whether or not to use anecdotes in health and science reporting is See more How Do You Know What’s True? |
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