Last weekend The Independent published a ridiculous piece of antivaccine scaremongering by Paul Gallagher on their front page. They report the story of girls who became ill after receiving HPV vaccine, and strongly imply that the HPV vaccine was the cause of the illnesses, flying in the face of massive amounts of scientific evidence to the contrary.
I could go on at length about how dreadful, irresponsible, and scientifically illiterate the article was...
Read the rest: The Independent’s anti-vaccine scaremongering | The Stats Guy
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Are two thirds of cancers really due to bad luck? | The Stats Guy
A paper published in Science has been widely reported in the media today. According to media reports, such as this one, the paper showed that two thirds of cancers are simply due to bad luck, and only one third are due to environmental, lifestyle, or genetic risk factors.
The paper shows no such thing, of course...
Read the rest here: Are two thirds of cancers really due to bad luck? | The Stats Guy
The paper shows no such thing, of course...
Read the rest here: Are two thirds of cancers really due to bad luck? | The Stats Guy
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