Re: 'Pull yourself together and get over it'



Rowland McDonnell wrote:

nigel <useweb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Thomas Dehn wrote:


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"Sir Benjamin Nunn" <bennunn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


If only it really worked like that.

Ask them whether they thinks that "get over it" is
a successful approach to cure cancer.

A positive mental attitude seems to help.


With what? Not in the case of curing cancer, it doesn't - the research
has been done.

[snip]

Rowland.

I can't quote sources supporting my claim because they are mainly vaguely-remembered articles from the health sections of tabloids, but I would be extremely sceptical that anyone has managed to carry out an objective, statistically rigorous trial correlating mental attitude with cancer survival rates - the 'experts' can't even interpret data from simple studies like MMR and HRT correctly.

Evil Nigel

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