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Welcome to the week.

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This Week

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• Firefighters and cancer

• Food system mutual aid

• AI skin cancer detection

And more!

Have a great week,

— Willow

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Last week, we asked: How much do you trust standardized medical guidelines?

You said:

🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Complete trust - science knows best (10%)

“I worked in an electro microscopy laboratory in school and watched the research being done there. I learned to trust the scientific method used by the researchers. And as a child in the polio epidemic in the 50’s I was given life saving vaccines for my own health. They didn’t even have measles vaccines, mumps vaccines ot chickenpox vaccines. We had all of those illnesses. A shot would have been better. ”

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Mostly trust but sometimes question them (55%)

“Science is fantastic, but never perfect.”

“I worked in health care for about 20 years and general guidelines were useful in getting treatment started promptly, while waiting for labs etc. There are times however, when reliance on them can interfere with needed treatment. ”

🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Somewhat skeptical - they seem too general (14%)

🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Very skeptical - they don't account for individual differences (20%)

“Often over-influenced by big industries, often ignores essential data from excluded groups (e.g. women, non-white non-European)”

⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Something else (let us know!) (1%)

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