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Category Archives: European BS

STATS & THE TORTURED TORTURE TROPE

You know you’re in for a tedious read when a blog post contains the shopworn “torture” metaphor in its title. Thus, it was with a sigh of resignation that I slogged through Joe Paduda’s response to my recent post about Lancet Oncology’s study of cancer survival rates.
Paduda disputes my claim that the U.S. has the best health care system, but his position […]

Posted 06 August 2008 † Catron § Canadian BS § Statistical BS ‡ Comments (0)

U.S. STILL HAS BEST CANCER SURVIVAL RATE

A while back, I asked this rhetorical question: Why wasn’t Edward Kennedy flown to Europe to have his cancer treated? The answer, of course, is that the much-maligned U.S. health care system is the best in the world.
Nowhere is this more obvious than in the area of cancer treatment. John Goodman reports on another study published in Lancet Oncology […]

Posted 01 August 2008 † Catron § French BS ‡ Comments (0)

KENNEDY: WHY WASN’T HE FLOWN TO EUROPE?

Well, I guess it’s up to me to ask the uncouth yet obvious question: If U.S. health care is inferior to the systems of Canada and Europe, why wasn’t a rich and famous man like Senator Kennedy immediately sent to one of those places so that he could get the best care available?
As Whitecoat noted the […]

Posted 21 May 2008 † Catron § Progressive BS § Reform BS ‡ Comments (18)