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Uncharted: Margaret Heffernan

Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz

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Is There a Threshold Theory of Cancer?

The evidence seemed clear that it was the x rays, the exposure x rays, whic connected ith cancer exactly. And so it seemed likely that physicians would stop x raying young women when they were pregnant. Yet, 25 years before the american medical association decided that this was a bad idea. "It's a really beautiful example of wilful blindness," she says.

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