Targeted junkmail "from" your GP?
Ian Batten
ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:51:43 +0100
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>> Now add in the area they live in, say 50.000 people live there, and
>> you are talking about 710 "suspects".
>
> So don't give the researchers the "area".
Bang goes any study relating incidences to environmental factors.
>
> I very much doubt my medical records include my occupation (which is
> in any event so obscure that I have difficulty categorising it even
> when someone *is* gathering the information).
Bang goes any study relating incidences to occupation.
So that's the lead studies (Edinburgh and north Birmingham) and a lot
of the asbestos and pneumo-silicosis studies gone.
ian