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From: paul@phs.UUCP (Paul C. Dolber)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Final, resolved, and unambiguous?
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Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 10:20:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 11 10:20:59 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 13-Mar-85 01:16:30 EST
Organization: Dept. Physiol., DUMC
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According to Science 85 (April issue, quoted by someone):

  "Vitamin C is ineffective as a treatment for cancer. So say doctors
  at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who found that victims
  of bowel cancer given large doses of vitamin C had no better survival
  rate than victims treated with a placebo. The report contradicts the
  assertions of two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling, a longstanding
  advocate of the vitamin's powers to treat some diseases."
 
Someone else commented: "Mmmrmmph! Don't you love the way they make it
sound so final, so resolved, so unambiguous?" J. Giles agreed that the
report sounded too final, and suggested an alternate report style.
But, boiled down, what did the original report say? Without any
requirement for advanced scientific education?

  Vitamin C is ineffective as a treatment for cancer, say doctors at the
  Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. [Their] report contradicts the
  assertions of two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling.

This is final, resolved, unambiguous? Regards, Paul Dolber (duke!phs!paul).