At Pajamas Media, Dalrymple notes the dangers of mammograms. Are the dangers great enough to outweigh the benefits of early detection of breast cancer? It’s actually difficult to say.
The Skeptical Doctor
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Dalrymple’s Essays
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Dalrymple’s Books
- Around the World in the Cinemas of Paris
- Embargo and Other Stories
- In Praise of Folly
- False Positive
- Illness as Inspiration
- The Terror of Existence
- Grief and Other Stories
- The Proper Procedure and Other Stories
- The Knife Went In
- Nothing But Wickedness
- Migration
- Good and Evil in the Garden of Art
- A Pinch of Salt
- Out Into the Beautiful World
- Admirable Evasions
- Threats of Pain and Ruin
- The Pleasure of Thinking
- Farewell Fear
- The Policeman & the Brothel
- Anything Goes
- Mr Clarke's Modest Proposal
- Litter: How Other People's Rubbish Shapes Our Life
- The Examined Life
- Spoilt Rotten
- The New Vichy Syndrome
- Second Opinion
- Profeten en Charlatans
- Not With a Bang But a Whimper
- In Praise of Prejudice
- Romancing Opiates
- Our Culture, What's Left of It
- Life at the Bottom
- An Intelligent Person's Guide to Medicine
- Mass Listeria
- If Symptoms Still Persist
- So Little Done
- If Symptoms Persist
- Monrovia, Mon Amour
- The Wilder Shores of Marx
- Sweet Waist of America
- Filosofa's Republic
- Zanzibar to Timbuktu
- Fool or Physician
- Coups and Cocaine
Recent Comments
- Carl Wells on Will We Ever Shake Hands Again?
- David Seri on Life’s a Boar
- Bryce Mansfield on Life’s a Boar
- Mariana Bell on Diego Maradona Was Not a Victim
- David Seri on The Ever-Downward Coarse
- Carl Wells on The Ever-Downward Coarse
- Zsuzsanna Rakovszky on The Ever-Downward Coarse
- RV on The Ever-Downward Coarse
- William Vaughan on Charity without Cost
- Theodore Dalrymple – Crônicas de Karina on An Interesting Life
Coincidentally, researchers have recently turned up evidence suggesting colonoscopy may well be doing more harm than good.