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The cancer rates in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc have skyrocketed in the past decades. Some believe it's tied to the relentless bombings: https://www.theguardian.com
by zdean 9y ago
The cancer rates in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc have skyrocketed in the past decades. Some believe it's tied to the relentless bombings:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/14/iraq.military https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/14/iraq.military
- MacsHeadroom 9y agoCancer screening has also skyrocketed and cancer is up in lots of places without active conflict. I don't mean to minimize the actual destructive effects of war. But the evidence for cancer as being among them is far from conclusive.
- zdean 9y agoCancer screening skyrocketing doesn't account for a skyrocketing rate of cancer...it would simply capture more of the absolute number.