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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by mrfusion on Friday June 25, 2021 @08:41AM (#27630013)
My car’s check engine light came on and a costly mechanic visit didn’t find any problems so we decided to remove the check engine light.
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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by jacquesm on Friday June 25, 2021 @08:43AM (#27630038)
That's not an appropriate analogy for more reasons than I care to relate here. Suffice to say that if you believe that the engine check light is the equivalent to a positive cancer test that you probably should stay out of medicine ;)

And maybe out of your garage as well...

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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by a_conservative on Friday June 25, 2021 @11:34AM (#27632081)
Why are you responding to random commenters on HN as if they are the ones getting ready to go out and start writing the official policy of a country?

Discussion is good. It's ok for people to be wrong and disagree. I'm not even saying they are wrong, but if they were- do you really need to go around telling everyone that some opinion that crossed their mind over a cup of morning coffee would be a disaster if implemented as national policy?

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