I've long felt that for a layperson to make any change to behavior based on a recently reported medical study isn't worthwhile, and what do you know but sounds like someone did a study of other studies and concluded pretty much the same thing. It was especially annoying when my mom went on and then off hormone pills for health reasons -- Initial studies indicated that "hormone pills protect menopausal women from heart disease. A larger, more rigorous Women's Health Initiative study later found the pills increase actually heart disease risks." Argh. -- Ok, I should confess that the actual headline is "Third of study results don't hold up" not "For a layperson to make any change to behavior based on a recently reported medical study isn't worthwhile" and those aren't really pretty much the same thing.

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Mom [ 07/16/2005 13:59]: Hey, I went off the HRT because it made me feel lousy. I was ahead of my time--the warning came six months after I had already stopped.

Evan [ 07/18/2005 15:30]: Science teachers are failing students by not teaching them how to interpret these "new findings" that come out so frequently. This leads to the comment that almost makes my head explode, the super ignorant "Hey, pretty much everything causes cancer, right, so who cares what I do?" Full disclosure: in my own high school science class I do little to address this.

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