Posted: Jan 10, 2015 12:42 am
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/01/05/on-the-importance-of-luck/
On the importance of luck
Posted by PZ Myers on January 5, 2015
That paper that proposed that most cancers were due to bad luck, that is, that they were a consequence of biological factors that could not be controlled, has been surprisingly controversial. I thought it was a fairly unsurprising paper that confirmed what we already suspected, but wow, the furious pushback has been something to behold.
Today, though, a couple of MDs have responded to the paper and reinforce what I said.
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