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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Bullshit. I can find studies out the ass to support anything, and tons supporting the non-linkage between second hand smoke and cancer.
A family member onc's position on all this shit is "people with certain genetics can get cancer triggered by certain stimuli, but the studies fail to say YOU HAVE TO HAVE THAT GENETIC QUIRK."
Cross ref the people in these studies for certain mutations and you'll find they probably all had them. Yet these "studies" tell us "everybody who's around second hand smoke" is in danger of getting cancer. That's bullshit.
If second hand smoke were a legitimate cancer risk, as opposed to an infintessimally small one for a select group of people, think of how many people would have it.
These studies are almost always poorly written, but if you put it in the form of a paper, and claim you used the scientific method, somebody - shit, everbody - will believe you.
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That's why the articles are peer reviewed and that's why they're constantly rehashing the same thing over and over and over again. That's why the EPA, the National Academy of Sciences, and most recently,
the Surgeon General issued separate studies on the subject. It's not a hypothesis that one group of physicians came up with and was never tested again.
I'd be more than happy to play "who has more doctors in the family that we can bullshit with at cocktail parties" with you, and I'm pretty sure that I'd win. But I've also gone to a School Public Health and actually done healthcare research, and a vast majority of what I do every day involves healthcare research, and your disdain for epidemeology and evidence based, outcomes oriented medicine show an obvious bias against any rigorous study which has results that you do not agree with.
I could give a shit about what you do with your kids. My doctor father used to get ready every weekend for 100 mile road trips by making a 16 ounce gin and tonic for the road. The single car seat was reserved for the infant, and the other three kids at various weights under fifty pounds were strapped in to whatever lap belts were around. We all lived. Doesn't mean it was safe then or now.
