Everything Gives You Cancer

Filed under Life by adam | October 21, 2006 | 4419 hits | 2 comments

Recent health news: Does TV pull the trigger on autism? (suggesting that early childhood exposure to television may increase the chances of autism, but see this Time magazine rebuttal); White Bread increases cancer risk.

I’m reminded of the old Joe Jackson song, Cancer:

Everything
Everything gives you cancer
Everything
Everything gives you cancer
There’s no cure, there’s no answer
Everything gives you cancer
…

2 comments

  1. Mark Brown Jan 28

    There’s also this rebuttal at Freakonomics – the autism study appears pretty terrible, to be honest.

  2. Anonymous Jan 28

    This is an obvious example of ‘if statisitcal correlation exists between A and B, then A causes B’ fallacy.

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