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“If you’re a prostate cancer survivor, one of the hardest things to question is whether your treatment was worth it.”
In 2003
Professor Alan Coates, then chief executive of the Cancer Council of Australia, caused a media storm, when he suggested that based on available evidence he personally would not undergo
PSA screening for prostate cancer. This month's RSM journal analyses the
Australian media response in
detail.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus
at 8:45 AM on November 29, 2007
(43 comments)
"
The world is at the beginning of a structural change of its economic system. This
change will be triggered by declining fossil fuel supplies and will influence almost
all aspects of our daily life."
The new Oil Report from Energy Watch Group makes a strong case that we have now passed peak oil.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus
at 5:58 AM on October 22, 2007
(87 comments)
An obituary for Lord Michael Pratt a classic British toff. Despite his expertise on
Central European country houses it seems he will be best remembered as:
"one of the last Wodehouseian figures to inhabit London's clubland and...an unabashed snob and social interloper on a grand scale." Many more hilarious and unkind details about his schooling:
"He was sent to Eton, having already acquired the rotund shape that would stay with him for the rest of his life.", and his boozing:
"He was also a leading light in another Oxford club called the Snuff Committee, the sole purpose of which was to take snuff and drink port. Membership was by invitation only; the only stipulation was that one had to be the son of a landowner." Wags are already describing it as
"the least hagiographic obit ever published".
posted to MetaFilter by roofus
at 4:30 AM on September 12, 2007
(51 comments)
