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It’s not a broken system. It’s a limitation of the current state of human knowledge. Perfect information about X without the state of knowledge to interpret that information prompts flawed action.

You are not living at the end of time, at the peak of human knowledge. There are things we know enough about to interpret; there are things we don’t. The former we test; the latter prompts scientific research.

I suspect your comment is not super related to the article, as very very few people die from biopsies.

> at least we wouldn't kill a yet-larger group of false positives through mistreatment

Killing? What are you talking about? Yet-larger? What data are you basing this on?