Health and Lifestyle Separating the Truth from the Myth with Statist
The main message of this book is that people should be on their guard against both scare stories about risks to health, and claims for miracle cures of medical conditions. In the 21st century hardly a day passes without another article appearing in the me
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HEalth and Lifestyle Separating the Truth from the Myth with Statistics
Health and Lifestyle
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Brian S. Everitt
Health and Lifestyle Separating the Truth from the Myth with Statistics
Brian S. Everitt London, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-3-319-42564-1 ISBN 978-3-319-42565-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-42565-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016954120 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Copernicus imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Acknowledgements
I am grateful to Rob Calver for giving me the idea for this book. Thanks are due to Dr. Alastair MacDonald for his insightful comments about various aspects of the book. I must also thank Michael Wilkins, organizer of the Edward Alleyn’s ‘Old Codgers’ tennis matches played each Wednesday morning, for reading the book and making many useful comments which greatly improved the content. And Professor Graham Dunn pointed me towards some of the controversies associated with the use of Herceptin in treating breast cancer for which I am very grateful. A number of anonymous reviewers made very helpful suggestions which I have made use of. Most importantly, I thank my wonderful wife, Mary-Elizabeth Everitt, for pointing out places in the book that needed clarification and for sharing her first-hand experiences of some of the treatments described in Chap. 4.
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To my daughters Joanna and Rachel and my grandsons Hywel and Dafydd
Medicine is one of science’s great contributions to human well-being, with health arguably being more important than education, for it is perhaps better to be alive and ignorant than dead but informed. Peter Atkins in On Being. Human reason must never be subjugated to a dogma, or to a myth, or to a preconceived idea because for human reason to do so would be for human reason to cease
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