Experts warn yearly checkups carry risks and do not reduce mortality
Half the posts in this thread bring back the old SlashDot adage: <i>The plural of anecdote is not data.</i><p>I am not sure what the point this article is trying to make is. I do not feel more informed for having read it.<p>It seems a populist appeal to the idea that the medical institution has no idea what it is doing. Is it good, is it bad? It doesn't matter. The end result is damaged institutional trust.<p>How many people would read this article and go "yeah doctors have no idea what they are doing," then go to their alternative medicine to spend $100 on a dubious "medicine"? How many people here are actually equipped to have a meaningful understanding of the information presented? Why did the author not present the institutional position or data supporting yearly checkups and why it's misleading?<p>As long as billionaires are able to influence people to fight about anything other than wealth disparity, they win. We are not experts, we should leave decision making to people who know what they don't know rather than to people who don't know what they don't know (us).