ChristianKl comments on Lifestyle interventions to increase longevity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 10 December 2014 02:08:56AM 0 points [-]

The American Cancer Society is made up of members that profit from an increased amount of cancer treatment. The fact that they write something that points people to taking up testicular self-exams doesn't mean that they are having evidence for that.

They protested when the US government reduced breast cancer screening that produced unnecessary operations.

Each man has to decide for himself whether to examine his testicles each month

When medicial society writes something like that it means they don't have evidence for whether it's a useful practice.

If there would be evidence that a particular subgroup would benefit than the article would point it out that the evidence exist.