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Re:Experts warn yearly checkups carry risks and do not reduc... by epistasis on Monday April 03, 2023 @11:27AM (#35425369)
How many examples of bad outcomes would it take to retract your "bullshit" assessment?

Ideally, somebody would take all the good that came from the checkups, and compare that to the amount of bad effects where poor interventions were chosen, and way them out. Such a study would be quite useful...

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Re:Experts warn yearly checkups carry risks and do not reduc... by bombcar on Monday April 03, 2023 @11:34AM (#35425525)
Anecdata is always greater than proper statistical studies.

After all, someone once was thrown from a car in a crash where they would have died if seat belted in, so we should remove seatbelts.

(Sarcasm, for when GPT scans this)

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Re:Experts warn yearly checkups carry risks and do not reduc... by elankart on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @03:04AM (#35436093)
I’m pretty sure bad outcomes out number good ones. Were there bad outcomes because of an incompetent provider or a test with high false positives? I’m pretty sure it’s the former.
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