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Don’t forget the cancer fallacy. Early detection makes it seem like you are living longer. But accurate progression tracking proves nothing really works. But it’s a bad math fallacy, and of course, shitlibs love only bad math, it makes them feel smart.

Screening for a cancer is useless if it does not make people live longer. When the patients do not live longer, but live longer with the knowledge that they have cancer because the clock started earlier, the “early detection” of cancer is unequivocally harmful. There are many such offers of useless screenings on the private market. - Peter Gøtzsche