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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
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Subject: Placebos CANNOT cause cancer!!!
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 23:12:51 EDT
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Before any more of this nonsense gets posted:

	First seifert@mako didn't get the statistics. Now ems@amdahl is
blaming everything on miniscule amounts of dye.

	OK, this is getting ridiculous.  If the packaging caused cancer, then
you would expect people in the experimental group to get cancer, too.  Also,
how much difference will one pill make in total chemical intake (it was one
pill/day)  Two, chemical carcinogens tend to be organ specific - in this study
5 patients got five different cancers -- all of them common in the population.
We CAN be sure. They didn't get the cancer by increasing their total dye
intake by .0001% of daily intake.

>		What do you expect?  Watermelons are out of season!
This will change.  But the question is, did anyone figure out its source?

DO NOT, I PLEAD, DO NOT, respond to this article with a POSTING!!!

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				Craig Werner
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		"The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"