HI Andrew
I think risk is certainly one; yesterday there was an article on Radio
4 about risk reduction of glaucoma for tea drinkers, but no mention of
baseline risk. Also diagnostic testing; the other day the One show
carried a very rosy eyed promotion of a campaign to heel prick test
all babies in the UK for SCID (severe combined
immuodeficiency-1/60,000 live births in UK at present-done in 9 US
states-heel prick testing already done for a lot of conditions). No
mention of false positives, just 'this will cost £2.50 a test for
700,000 babies a year, and end up saving the NHS money so what's not
to like,' supported by a GOSH consultant. There was an old quoted
figure of 1.5% false positive rate on the test, although it may have
improved. Yet the BBC actually ran an online article 3 years ago on
this, based on Gigerenzer, so they should know better........
On 15 December 2017 at 12:19, Andrew Garthwaite
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