Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down.

SELECTING people for testing based on their personal medical history and their family history is the COMPLETE OPPOSITE of mass screening.

And then, if you choose a treatment after being FULLY informed of the risks, known harms, and the likelihood that it may OR MAY NOT help - if the companies didn't suppress any studies showing the harm or inefficacy of their products, or if you chose the treatment after those studies came to light - if you and/or your doctor carefully sifted through the available research papers and evaluated them for bias, including the bias implicit in what's even being studied - if you were able to disregard the human propensity that we ALL have to disregard sometimes huge risks when trying to avoid a known loss - then that's not being "duped" (your word, not mine, in any event).

I just started reading this book, Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior, by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman. I sure wish I'd read it two months ago. Y'know, we're all human, and to acknowledge making a decision based on emotion and innate, genetically encoded human psychology rather than reason (as I just did) is not an insult.


/back to topic: one thing that that article doesn't even address is that osteopenia isn't even a condition. All it is, is having a measured bone density one standard deviation below the mean for a 30-year-old female. BY DEFINITION, 16% of young women are "osteopenic." With the natural progression of bone loss, 50% of older women are "osteopenic." Y'know, I'm probably going to get old. I'm definitely going to die. The same is true for every single person here.

I just deleted two more paragraphs of ranting I've made my points. I never said anything insulting about the choices that ANYONE has made about her own health. I'm just urging people to MAKE an informed CHOICE.