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In America, cutting-edge inventions are seen as the gateway to the future. However, the hazard of credulously accepting new technology into medical practice was warned against in a 2008 Journal of the American Medical Association editorial “Gizmo Idolatry.”

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Richard Ablin
Professor of pathology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, The Arizona Cancer Center, and, The BIO5 Institute; Co-author, The Great Prostate Hoax: How Big Medicine Hijacked the PSA Test and Caused A Public Health Disaster
Ronald Piana
Science writer, co-author, The Great Prostate Hoax: How Big Medicine Hijacked the PSA Test and Caused A Public Health Disaster
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