Targeted junkmail "from" your GP?

Ian Batten ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:51:43 +0100


>>
>> 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