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The quack view of preventing cancer versus reality and Angelina Jolie, part 4

oracknows | April 3, 2015

Why, oh why, did I look at GreenMedInfo again? You remember GreenMedInfo? It's yet another wretched hive of scum and quackery, but with a twist. Its proprietor, Sayer Ji, thinks he's an expert at interpreting the biomedical literature. Unfortunately, as he demonstrates time and time again with depressing regularity, he is nothing of the sort. In reality, what Ji is an expert at is cherry picking medical studies and torturing them until they confess agreement with whatever quack idea he's currently espousing. In the wake of the news coverage of Angelina Jolie's decision to have her ovaries…

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The quack view of preventing cancer versus reality and Angelina Jolie, part 4

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