Colds May Trigger Childhood Cancers

Tiger4 writes "BBC News is reporting that the incidence of childhood cancers may be affected by the colds that child has had. From the Article: 'Scientists have found further compelling evidence infections such as colds may trigger childhood cancers. The University of Newcastle-led team looked at 3,000 childhood cancers in 0 to 14-year-olds from 1954 to 1998, the European Journal of Cancer reported. Researchers found unusual clusters of brain tumors and leukemia which were typical of infection-related disease.' As much as an 8 percent increase was observed. However, the article goes on to say that some risks go down with very early exposure to other children, 'In April, a Leukemia Research Fund study found that children introduced to nursery before the age of one were found to be at lower risk of leukemia.'"

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Re:Cause or correlation?

[CyricZ]

You don't necessarily need the source code to a piece of software to scrutinize it. One thing you can do is, you know, run it. If it crashes, then it's quite possible that it's poor quality software. Even if you can't determine the exact reason why the piece of software failed, the fact remains that it did fail, and was thus faulty in some way.

Microsoft's software has been "peer reviewed" by almost everyone here, for instance. And that's why there's often a very negative attitude towards it. People have found it to be lacking in the past.