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by oneloop 3693 days ago
> It doesn't cause very much cancer

I can tell you're an expert on the subject from the very technical language you use.

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EDIT: holy fuck IHBT.
If you think writing like an orc is "audience appropriate", you're mistaken.

Here's a preliminary release on the original study: http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanonc/PIIS1470-2045(...

They picked a 95% confidence level, which means they accept that 1/20 of their positives will be false positives.

They did this when conducting a study on "more than 15 types of cancer".

These people are about as smart as you are.