We're only pond slime, so why don't we all go on a killing spree?
I wouldn't consider my LJ polite company. Some of the things it has said to me are shocking!
marmaladecat and I were dicussing science reporting in the media on the way home from work today. I don't know what its like in other contries ( I can't help but think its fairly patchy in America), but some of the stuff that gets written (and not just in tabloids) is awful. And you never see it retracted.
New Scientist that had an article about herceptin, the breast cancer drug that has been in the papers recently. The article points out that while the drug had an effect, it was much smaller than the papers have been making out. It points out that even people how have no further treatment, reoccurence is only about 10%. It also mentions that the taking the drug carries a risk of heart damage. One of the editors writing about the drug also took massive consulting fees from the company that made it.
Yet women in this country are fighting legal battles and selling their houses in some cases to get a drug that appears may slightly reduce the risk of cancer reoccurance because the media is telling them that if they don't get it, then effectively they've had a death warrent signed.
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Date: 2006-03-10 05:55 pm (UTC)I wouldn't consider my LJ polite company. Some of the things it has said to me are shocking!
New Scientist that had an article about herceptin, the breast cancer drug that has been in the papers recently. The article points out that while the drug had an effect, it was much smaller than the papers have been making out. It points out that even people how have no further treatment, reoccurence is only about 10%. It also mentions that the taking the drug carries a risk of heart damage. One of the editors writing about the drug also took massive consulting fees from the company that made it.
Yet women in this country are fighting legal battles and selling their houses in some cases to get a drug that appears may slightly reduce the risk of cancer reoccurance because the media is telling them that if they don't get it, then effectively they've had a death warrent signed.