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Paul Scott

Rochester, MN
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5 years 30 weeks

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Posted on 02/02/11 at 12:59 pm in response to Digital-mammography report shows how profits can trump science

I wonder if the underwhelming performance of digital mammograms just reflects the longstanding limitations of screening and imaging with this illness that have always existed. Seems like they are offering patients a clearer picture of the chest, when a picture of the chest isn't the answer in the first place, given an illness that has no discrete "early treatable stage."

Posted on 02/02/11 at 08:32 am in response to What a philosophical difference a year makes with Dayton's $1 billion bonding plan

Actually, some of these projects create permanent jobs. The Civic Center in Rochester for instance is expected to create 500-800 permanent hospitality jobs.

Posted on 01/31/11 at 01:25 pm in response to Demand better media? Not with Demand Media

Thanks for the excellent piece John. I find the comments rallying to Demand's defense to look kind of fishy. As a freelancer myself, I would say the first rule of freelancing is don't defend the bosses, much less the stock price, and I can't imagine defending bosses who are anonymous and cheap. Here is another take on Demand, offered up by a guy who worked for them and then wrote about it in CJR....

Posted on 01/27/11 at 05:55 pm in response to More on medical-study whiplash (and why we health consumers need to stay skeptical)

If we did not impart such a sense of divinity to medical research but rather accepted it as a changing evolving process of discovery we wouldn't be so threatened to learn that, say, statins are a waste of money in the healthy-- and probably the sick as well. Our problem is that we are fundamentally people of the book, whether it be the Bible or the PDR.

Posted on 01/22/11 at 12:28 pm in response to Journalists: please catch Bachmann's false statements on the trail

Tom Scheck did a great job with that piece about Bachmann's nonsense on Morning Edition. I remember hearing the original interview with Cathy Wurzer at the time and just shaking my head. Wurzer pushed back on one or two whoppers, but as is often the case in these, she didn't really follow up when Bachmann just started serving up the baloney sandwiches. You get the feeling they give her a pass out of fear of looking "biased", presumably in favor of accuracy, that or they decide its not their...

Posted on 01/17/11 at 10:30 pm in response to Health advocacy groups often fail to report Big Pharma grants, report finds

Thanks for telling this very important story Susan. I am wondering if Grassley is ever going to release the findings of his inquiry. Mostly though, like the previous commenter, I am troubled that the marketing of antipsychotics appears to have made up the lion's share of the efforts on the part of the company in question in this study. Again, I ask, why is a drug for a rare condition, schizophrenia, the most profitable drug in the country. Does anyone even care? It is being used to vastly...

Posted on 01/17/11 at 11:23 am in response to 'Call their bluff,' says Pawlenty on federal debt ceiling

I think the local political reporting fraternity would call up Tim Penny and Vin Weber for sagely advice on how to fix their ice dams. He is outside the box as long as taxes are never involved.

Posted on 01/13/11 at 03:05 pm in response to Al Franken: 'A lot of what I did was ironic'

So obesity causes cancer but what causes obesity? I see a missing ingredient in that story. If you think the answer is "eating too much and exercising too little," that still doesn't answer the question. Why do we eat too much and exercise too little? If you look into the regulation of fat tissue, the science says that both of those circumstances are brought about thanks to carbohydrates in the diet and their ability to trigger the release of insulin, which over time leaves us perpetually...

Posted on 01/14/11 at 10:59 am in response to The Star Tribune's op-ed lineup turns rightward

I think the Diaz article correctly identified the spontaneous organic supernatural phenomenon in which children all over the country spontaneously wish to push their stuffed animals into the hands of Tim Pawlenty. They appreciate his firm line on taxes and dedication to transferirng the tax burden to municipalities and know that their stuffed animals belong his healing hands.

Posted on 01/12/11 at 11:13 pm in response to The Star Tribune's op-ed lineup turns rightward

Anyone else think that Sunday's Op-Ed section was kind of hilarious? Doug writes a thoughtful piece about how Pawlenty's book isn't too deep -- do yah think? -- and then EXCERPTS 1000 WORDS of it, just so we can be sure. Sop it was sort of Tim Pawlenty Day. Thanks Tim!! You left us with only 6 bill in debt! Then you have that al knowing Jason Lewis up there in his new perch, because presumably not enough people hear from him already at K Whatever and KK will be back next week, for those of...