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Also science: There are more new cases of cancer in the United States now than there have ever been before.

• worik 2y ago
  > There are more new cases of cancer in the United States now than there have ever been before. Sigh That is because antibiotics, essentially The mechanism by which antibiotics cause cancer is they stop you dying from bacterial infection, once a huge (biggest?) killer. You still have to die of something....
  • jiggawatts 2y ago
    There’s also improved testing: previously old people would die of “unknown natural causes”, now they’re diagnosed as having cancer.
  • consf 2y ago
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