In Roundup Trials, The Deck Is Stacked Against Science
Say that one in a thousand people has disease x. There’s a test for x, but five percent of the time it says someone has x when he doesn’t. You, the test says, have x. How likely is it that you do? A little math goes a long way here. If one in a thousand people is infected but five in a hundred people …
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