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has led to a lot of paternalism. I am sure that in the
breast cancer community that has been an issue to which a
great deal of thought and writing has occurred but it is
something to keep in mind here and it came through in your
comments also about the pathologists. The sense that I
have a resource, I want to do good, I want to determine
what happens with it.
The second is a phrase that you used about the
tragedy of not doing research and it is here that I want to
invoke Jonas' ghost because I still am convinced by his
view that the greatest tragedy is doing things which end up
harming or wronging people in the name of the greater good
of progress and that progress in his phrase is an optional
good and it is a good which ought not to be bought at
certain other costs which can occur even in well
intentioned circumstances. Now obviously he was not -- his
was not an argument for doing nothing but it is a question
of what presumption we go into things with and in that line
I would like to put four points to you and ask you to
elaborate on them because they were so intriguing as you
went along.
The first one was the notion that with some of
this research, particularly I guess on retrospective
research but maybe it went to both, public confidence was