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"The study failed to find a reduction in death rate despite lowering the incidence of cancer, and that is the center of the piece"

Maybe you didn't read the article all the way through?

What it found was it merely inviting people to a colonoscopy did not result in less deaths from colon cancer, although it did result in fewer people being treated for it.

However, if you look at the people who actually took a colonoscopy, there was a 50% reduction in deaths from colon cancer.

That's not nothing.