Did you see that story blaming two-thirds of cancer risk on bad luck rather than bad genes? Well, Bob O’Hara and GrrlScientist have some criticisms: "These headlines, and the stories, are just bollocks," they write. "The work, which is very interesting, showed no such thing." Their post explains that the study's authors were only trying to explain variation in cancer risk, not absolute risk: "[The data] says nothing about the proportion of cancers due to cell division."
January 3, 2015
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