- I want to take this! Harvard class on fermented food.
- Psychological stress (depression, etc.) associated with more death and heart disease even at low levels of stress.
- Paleo diet clears up acne. “As someone with bad acne growing up, I remember very clearly going to the dermatologist and them CLEAR AS DAY stating that there is no link between food and acne.”
- The world’s biggest breast cancer charity misleads women about the value of mammograms.
Thanks to Tim Beneke and Bryan Castañeda.
Have you seen the latest ads asking for support of lung cancer research? The “do they deserve to die” kind?
Seth: No, haven’t seen them. Good point.
Your acne link above is broken.
Seth: Fixed, thanks.
In Queensland, Australia, breast cancer screening has been devolved from a state to a local hospital responsibility, which some are seeing as cancelling it entirely (partly because a $44m/year agency is being defunded). I am tempted (but don’t, because politics) to post about mammograms being not very useful.
In Gerd Gigerenzer’s excellent book on Risk he remarks that German oncologists overwhelmingly reserve their recommendation of mammography (for the non symptomatic) to their patients. They don’t apply it to themselves or, if male, to their wives.
Seth: How telling. Sort of like the Freakonomics story about real estate agents..
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