This came on very suddenly, didn't it?

I bet grant scientists will find it was the widespread use of gas stoves.

"Safe and effective."

Here's to your aunts getting better.

I do trust the science. I also question it. That's how we get more science.

If it were a lack of checkups the numbers for 2020–2022 would be lower and the 2023 number would balance them out. That’s not what is happening. We are seeing normal numbers changing to much higher numbers. Something is causing a lot more cancer. The “lack of check‐ups” excuse is not going to fit at all this time.

The interesting thing about cancer screening is that it has almost no effect on mortality rates, but massively increases rates of diagnosis. The increased rates of diagnosis result in a perceived increase in 5 year survival rate. But that is just a statistical mirage due to the increased diagnosis of "cancers" that are likely benign. The treatment of those benign cancers also results in significant iatrogenic harm. There are basically 3 types of cancers, very fast growing ones that you can do nothing about (you're fucked), moderate growing ones that can be treated, and will kill you if you don't treat them, and very slow growing ones that will give you no trouble before you are well and truly dead from other causes or just old age. Screening can't help you on the first type, you're dead anyway. It doesn't pick up too many of the second type, maybe a few, but they would likely have been picked up once they become symptomatic. It picks up lots of the third type, resulting in much unnecessary treatment (and its associated harm). The treatment is also very lucrative for the pharma companies, and the increased diagnoses allow the cancer "charities" to push for more and more money too. It's not only war that's a racket.

Probably a bit of both.

Most likely the truth.

2023 isn't over yet. We can draw estimates based on numbers to date, which is why it's called an estimate.

Wait until January 1st 2024 to see that number magically go down!