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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
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Subject: This has gone much too far!
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Date: Thu, 30-May-85 00:59:59 EDT
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	Let me just correct one misconception that keeps cropping up and
then let's drop the whole subject.

	The original study I cited was for RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS.  It lasted
5 years.  Ten years AFTER THE STUDY WAS OVER, it was shown that 5 people
who had participated in it had gotten cancer. All five of these had been in
the control group however, had not recieved any drug, and therefore the fact
that they got cancer is just a coincidence.  (This was an older population,
it happens.)  
	The point I wanted to make was had the coincidence fallen the other
way, that drug (an immunosuppresant) would have most likely been banned as
a known (talk about Medical proof!?) carcinogen.

Now we've been though it before.  Let's all save the net a lot of phone
bills, and please do not respond to this article.
-- 
				Craig Werner
				!philabs!aecom!werner
		"The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"