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One Donor In Three Had The Rare Blood
The figure is 38.7 per cent against about 15 in three comparable cohorts. The blood service's own statistician attached a footnote before we saw the data: cohort D was recruited by a campaign that asked for rhesus-negative donors.
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The Authors Spent Four Pages Begging You Not To Use Their Result
Fifty-nine studies, pooled, showing a clear effect at high exposure. At the concentrations North American water systems actually use, the confidence interval crosses zero. The dose–response curve is the finding. The headline number is not.