Re: Wyeth sued: HRT caused breast cancers

["Sbharris[atsign]ix.netcom.com"]

george conklin wrote:
> "Sbharris[atsign]ix.netcom.com" <sbharris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >
> > george conklin wrote:
> >>    Women have had to fight off physicians who pushed them actively into
> >> HRT
> >> therapy not only for hot flashes but also for promised that they would
> >> have
> >> all kinds of other benefits, now known to be false and based on biased
> >> research.
> >
> > COMMENT:
> >
> > "Biased research" your rear-end, George. All studies are imperfect in
> > SOME way, but that doesn't warrant calling them "biased research,"
> > inasmuch as that phrase implies things which aren't so.
>
>     A really ignorant comment.  Self-selection is one of the oldest biases
> known and unfortunately the model for HRT research.  It was crappy research,
> and unfortunatly such self-selection continues in the medical world.



COMMENT:

ONCE AGAIN: Self selection is why you're supposed to be eating
vegetables. Are you REALLY asking us to throw out all post hoc
epidemiology completely?

SBH