Giuliani’s bogus diagnosis

By Eugene Robinson | Friday, November 2, 3007 | The Washington Post

“…Even Rudy Giuliani would acknowledge that he can be prickly. Now, it seems, the tough-talking former mayor is growing estranged from empirical fact.

I’m referring to his presidential campaign’s recent radio ad in New Hampshire, in which Giuliani speaks of his personal experience with prostate cancer and then cites an ear-grabbing statistic: ‘My chances of surviving prostate cancer — and thank God I was cured of it — in the United States: 82 percent. My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England: only 44 percent under socialized medicine’….BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/01/AR2007110101991_pf.html

 

 

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