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By Susan Perry | 05/27/14
Over the weekend, I came across an article via Facebook about the great “root canal cover-up.”
The article charges that dentists have known for almost a century that root canals can unleash “pathological bacteria” into people’s bodies, which can then trigger all sorts of diseases, including multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and cancer.
My health-scam antennae immediately went up, of course. And, indeed, the article was nothing more than a ridiculous collection of fearmongering misinformation that ended (as I suspected it would) with a sales pitch for some kind of dental herbal supplement.
Some “facts” in the piece were so ludicrous, however, that I find it difficult to understand how anybody would believe them. At one point for example, the author cites a German doctor who apparently claimed that “in his 40 years of treating ‘terminal’ cancer patients, 97 percent of his cancer patients had root canals.”
Well, gosh, I guess that proves it then. Root canals cause cancer.
http://www.minnpost.com/second-opini...s-correlations
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TYLER VIGEN'S "SPURIOUS CORRELATIONS" BLOG IS THE MOST FUN YOU'LL EVER HAVE WITH GRAPHS
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Over the weekend, I came across an article via Facebook about the great “root canal cover-up.”
The article charges that dentists have known for almost a century that root canals can unleash “pathological bacteria” into people’s bodies, which can then trigger all sorts of diseases, including multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and cancer.
My health-scam antennae immediately went up, of course. And, indeed, the article was nothing more than a ridiculous collection of fearmongering misinformation that ended (as I suspected it would) with a sales pitch for some kind of dental herbal supplement.
Some “facts” in the piece were so ludicrous, however, that I find it difficult to understand how anybody would believe them. At one point for example, the author cites a German doctor who apparently claimed that “in his 40 years of treating ‘terminal’ cancer patients, 97 percent of his cancer patients had root canals.”
Well, gosh, I guess that proves it then. Root canals cause cancer.
http://www.minnpost.com/second-opini...s-correlations
---------
TYLER VIGEN'S "SPURIOUS CORRELATIONS" BLOG IS THE MOST FUN YOU'LL EVER HAVE WITH GRAPHS
http://www.bustle.com/articles/24690...ve-with-graphs
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