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Re:Fraud, so much fraud by worik on Friday September 27, 2024 @07:07PM (#41676417)
> There are more new cases of cancer in the United States now than there have ever been before.

Sigh

That is because antibiotics, essentially

The mechanism by which antibiotics cause cancer is they stop you dying from bacterial infection, once a huge (biggest?) killer.

You still have to die of something....

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Re:Fraud, so much fraud by jiggawatts on Friday September 27, 2024 @08:40PM (#41676910)
There’s also improved testing: previously old people would die of “unknown natural causes”, now they’re diagnosed as having cancer.
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Re:Fraud, so much fraud by consf on Saturday September 28, 2024 @04:02PM (#41682619)
As we conquer one type of disease, others emerge more prominently
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