Am I asleep? In the nyt? What page? Back of the last page of half human bisexual dwarfs seeking kittens?
Smokers Told To Quit Or Surgery Will Be Refused That was de facto in the UK over a decade ago for cardiac patients. A smoker wasn't listed for bypass surgery until he quit smoking. He finally quit, but he died before the scheduled surgery.
Hospitals admit white kids with lesser emergencies
Firearm Ownership and Storage Patterns Among Families With Children Who Receive Well-Child Care in Pediatric Offices I took a gander @ Pediatrics for the prior link and found it.
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Oops! Malaria was virtually wiped out in the US BEFORE the introduction of DDT and has not come back since the discontinuation of DDT use.
It’s amazing how much Bad Science dogs us. And costs us.
Ms. Carson used dubious statistics and anecdotes (like the improbable story of a woman who instantly developed cancer after spraying her basement with DDT) to warn of a cancer epidemic that never came to pass.There was a book some years back in which the author recounted tracking down some people Rachel Carson had immortalized via anthropology, and discovered some of the stories RC had quoted had been made up for their own amusement at her credulity.
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