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This article is a criticism of reasoning, not health advice or suggestions for cancer screening. Maybe he should put a big warning at the top, rather than expla
by travisjungroth 1y ago
This article is a criticism of reasoning, not health advice or suggestions for cancer screening. Maybe he should put a big warning at the top, rather than explain it throughout. A lot of people seem to be missing it.
We're so used to argument that criticizing logic is taken as criticizing the conclusion.
- tptacek 1y agoThe only thing the author seems to be directly arguing against is speculative full-body MRI scanning, which is already mainstream medical advice, for many of the reasons he offers.
- bonsai_spool 1y ago> We're so used to argument that criticizing logic is taken as criticizing the conclusion. This may be so, but his examples are so poor that one is distracted from any type of subtle claim he would make. They are bad in obvious ways (every cancer patient is staged, but we pretend in the article like staging is ancillary to researching survival rates).