What reasonable reporting on the testicular cancer study looks like
Monday, February 9th, 2009 at 4:15 pm | By: Radical Russ
Go ahead and surf over to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s report, “Weak link found between smoking pot, testicular cancer“. It’s a lot of rehashing of the pot nut cancer story blazing through the mainstream media today. I’m just reposting the parts that show what a reasonably balanced report report on a preliminary press release on an unseen marijuana health study looks like. (All emphasis mine.)
[Lede:] Teenagers who smoke pot regularly may slightly increase their risk of developing the most aggressive type of testicular cancer compared with nonsmokers, according to a new study.
The study does not prove that smoking marijuana causes cancer, and relied on self-reports of marijuana use.
Even if further research also points to an association, the risk would be small, said Dr. David Bell, a urologist with Capital Health in Halifax.
“This is a very rare malignancy, seen in about one per 100,000 men per year,” said Bell. “One has to really question the significance of this.”
The researchers did not find a link between marijuana and the more common form of testicular cancer.
The research was funded by the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Hutchinson Center.
What, NIDA funded a study to find out something bad about pot? Where’s Paul’s number, he’s never gonna believe this!…
It is a bunch of reefer madness.
Cannabis cures most if not all
cancer. I believe since cannabis
is about to become legal they are
trying to scare people. A buch of
propaganda. When you eat cannabis
oil it rejuvenates your organs.