- Source has been there the whole time, at the bottom of Xeni’s post.
- The abstract is more than enough to counter the claim that “there is no mention of the analytical methods used, or anything really that would give it critical merit.” And even if you didn’t have the original article, the burden of proof would have been on you to show that they are “inventing numbers” as you said. Your statement was based on nothing other than your dislike of the story.
- You are being completely unreasonable when you feel the need to simply decide that a study is making up statistics, and that a cancer-surviving journalist has a “blatant bias” towards writing about cancer. No, huh, she isn’t writing about Lyme disease as much. We got that. Write your own articles about Lyme disease.
Cool off, re-read your posts and understand why you’re coming off as a jerk.
There is an implication here that somehow breast cancer survivors should be deferred for special treatment by employers.
Really and honestly, step back a moment. The article wasn’t about that. It was about the awful calculus that a person needs to make when deciding whether to have additional treatment (adjuvant chemotherapy) which may improve their chance of surviving, but will also make them less likely to remain employed. Re-read Xeni’s article again in this light, and you’ll see that you got completely the wrong end of the stick.
