▽Worthwhile Canadian Initiative ●11/21 07:39 Healthy 80 year olds need FIT testsThere is a trade-off in cancer screening. On the one hand, older people are more likely to get cancer - as the chart shows, colorectal cancer incidence rates rise with age. On the other hand, the number of years one can expect to live decreases as one gets older. If a cancer is slow growing - as colorectal cancer often is - an older person might die of a heart a
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▽DeLong ●07/27 00:00 BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2021-05-11 TuThings that went whizzing by that I want to remember...First:Here we see a striking difference between Paul Krugman and Larry Summers. Krugman sees models as intuition pumps—and believes strongly, very strongly, that if you cannot make a simple model of it, it is probably wrong. Summers believes that our models are, at best, filing systems (and at worst tools for
