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Crunched by Numbers

Dennis G. Jerz / 25 Jul 2002

"[W]omen have been systematically misled into overestimating their chances of dying of breast cancer in order to prepare them to accept mammography." [A review of the book Reckoning with Risk.]

—Crunched by Numbers (The Spectator)

25 Jul 2002 in Books, Ethics, Science, Technology.

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