pauln99

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by pauln99 2y ago
I think he also said somewhere that people mainly disagree with distorted versions of your ideas...
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by pauln99 3y ago
"This year marks the 50th anniversary of the “War on Cancer” declared by Richard Nixon, a former President of the United States of America. By signing into law the National Cancer Act on December 23, 1971, Nixon hoped this action to be
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by pauln99 3y ago
In fairness, I was responding to the first sentence in the quote from the article. It seems relevant, as a patient to ask, on average, how much longer will I live if I take this drug?
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by pauln99 3y ago
To be clear, those aren't 16 years of accumulating improvements. The median life extension - across all 90-odd drugs - was two months.
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by pauln99 3y ago
I'm sorry, but two months to five months after 50 years and hundreds of billions of dollars. That was hardly the promise of the "war on cancer"!
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by pauln99 3y ago
Maybe I've misunderstood, but for the average person that's even worse news, right? Two months was from clinical trials where there's no doubt that the "thumb is on the scale" in a host of ways, creating an exaggera
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by pauln99 3y ago
“Statistically significant and highly clinically meaningful” perhaps, but not so much that they can say what that actually means. My understanding is that of all cancer drugs approved by the FDA between 2000-2016 (around 90 drugs), the medi
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by pauln99 3y ago
For the record, I _do_ think that the whole field of nutrition should be discounted. In the popular imagination we to tend blame journalism for the "one minute x causes cancer, the next minute x cures cancer" style flip-flopping,
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by pauln99 3y ago
The premises of your argument, i.e. what your grandparent's did and animals dietary changes, are insufficient to justify your firm conclusion.
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by pauln99 3y ago
> I’d roll back a bit on meat. It can be very fatty, particularly red meat. Fat is not bad. We decided it was on the flimsiest of evidence and suspect "plausbility" arguments (eating fat makes you fat, obvs) and the subsequent
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by pauln99 3y ago
I think Pollen should have said "Eat real food", and stopped there. Then our appetite will take care of itself, and won't require conscious - and ultimately - futile endeavour. And eating meat's fine (from a health persp