Email from an advocate of pseudoscience linking abortion to breast cancer: "There are 3 independent ABC risks and one of the 3 you do not dare deny is one which can be expressed in an 11 word equation: More abortions = more older rookie moms = more women with breast cancer." 1/
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Hilariously, this advocate of ABC pseudoscience doesn't realize that he just admitted that the apparent link between abortion and breast cancer is an artifact of a known risk factor for breast cancer (later maternal age at first pregnancy) and not due to abortion itself. 2/
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I haven't read the paper he's peddling yet, but I'd be willing to bet that the confounding factors of age at first pregnancy leading to live birth and total number of children born as risk factors for breast cancer are not correctly accounted for. 3/
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Also, it's a meta-analysis; so I'm betting that GIGO applies, perhaps with a smattering of publication bias. 4/4
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