Barack Obama has declared that it would greatly improve health care if women got more mammograms, and save us a lot of money in reduced health care costs.
While some feminists have been pushing this notion as an agenda item, the science says otherwise. Routine mammograms INCREASE the risk of breast cancer because of the radiation used in the procedue – which more than offsets the value of detecting a few cancers a little bit earlier.
There is nothing more dangerous than a man who believes things are true soley because he said them.
It will be interesting to see how Dr Dean Edell handles this situation – he’s long been an advocate of keeping politicians away from driving decision making in medicine. Will Dr Edell take on President Obama’s uninformed statements and beliefs?
There is nothing more dangerous than a man who believes things are true soley because he said them. . . . . That is probably the wisest sentence I’ve read in quite awhile. That is the primary disease of liberals – lets call is Schmua-toastist. As an addendum: the liberal perversion of science in general is among the greatest intellectual crimes of the last 200 years. No one will be held to account though. Our world has abandoned right and wrong in favor of legal vs. illegal that the results of that balance is determined by cash. We need Paris of 1793 again!