I meant that I hadn't yet read the original scientific publication [1] (I have now), not that I hadn't read the Guardian piece. I also wouldn't agree that I wa

I meant that I hadn't yet read the original scientific publication [1] (I have now), not that I hadn't read the Guardian piece. I also wouldn't agree that I was refuting the headline, I was just giving background. The scientific paper is very clear that this is an advance along precisely the lines I said were needed (ie defining a group for whom benefits outweigh harms), but the Guardian piece makes it sound like Aspirin's chemopreventive effect had just been discovered whole cloth. [1] http://annonc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/07/30/annonc.mdu225.full http://annonc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/07/30/an...