Showing posts with label Medical Paranoids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medical Paranoids. Show all posts

Wednesday, 25 February 2009

Stop these bloody health warnings ...

Enough, enough ... "one drink a week can cause you cancer" For God's sake - we are not immortal, we will die of something sometime - whether we like it or not.

Now I am not advocating taking up smoking again, or shoving junk food into everyone (those a BIG killers) but a lot of these health warnings are marginal (remember the true statistical cliche that "correlation does not necessarily equal causation") and frankly they impact in a political way far far more than they deserve.

I wish that a lot of these health paranoids will basically just bugger off and let us live our lives in a sensible way without having us having some bloody Dr Big Brother criticising us for every action we take.

There is a punch line to a joke that I always liked:

A doctor tells a man to give up drink, television, women etc etc ..

"Will I live longer? No, just will seem like it ...."