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Needs to die? What are you talking about? Obviously administering tests that haven't been shown to be effective prophylactically and can even cause harm to a given population is a stupid idea. That's why we do research and weigh benefits/risks. That's like saying antibiotics need to die because many times they don't work and can cause resistant strains, when the problem is that physicians often administer them incorrectly.

Appropriate preventative medicine supported by research and numbers is so, so important.




It's more akin to saying "Antibiotics for every cold and allergy needs to die", which, is true.

The other poster said the meme needs to die, not all preventative medicine.




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