Comments on: Yesterday http://artlung.com/blog/2005/06/16/yesterday/ Blogging sporadically since February 2001. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:20:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Christine http://artlung.com/blog/2005/06/16/yesterday/#comment-281 Christine Fri, 17 Jun 2005 04:46:58 +0000 http://artlung.com/blog/2005/06/16/yesterday/#comment-281 I hope today was a better day for you. I read an article in the Wall Street Journal about the promise of <a href="http://www.llu.edu/proton/patient/sites.html" rel="nofollow">proton therapy</a>. They have a clinic at Loma Linda and can remove things no one else is willing to or can. I hope today was a better day for you. I read an article in the Wall Street Journal about the promise of proton therapy. They have a clinic at Loma Linda and can remove things no one else is willing to or can.

]]> By: Al Abut http://artlung.com/blog/2005/06/16/yesterday/#comment-280 Al Abut Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:49:48 +0000 http://artlung.com/blog/2005/06/16/yesterday/#comment-280 I'm sorry to hear about your friend's cancer. My favorite writing about how "guestimated" survival timelines can be bullshit is by the prominant paleontologist Stephan Jay Gould, who lived about 20 years after his diagnosis said he'd live only another 8 months: http://www.cancerguide.org/median_not_msg.html It's a little bit on the brainy side about why statistics can lie and bring people down, but different things appeal to differ folks and I'm more of a take-comfort-in-the-analysis-of-numbers guy myself than spiritual/religious. I’m sorry to hear about your friend’s cancer. My favorite writing about how “guestimated” survival timelines can be bullshit is by the prominant paleontologist Stephan Jay Gould, who lived about 20 years after his diagnosis said he’d live only another 8 months:

http://www.cancerguide.org/median_not_msg.html

It’s a little bit on the brainy side about why statistics can lie and bring people down, but different things appeal to differ folks and I’m more of a take-comfort-in-the-analysis-of-numbers guy myself than spiritual/religious.

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