In this post Scott Alexander investigates whether whole-body screening is really as irrational as many doctors say, walking through the rough cost-benefit maths behind false positives, missed cancers, anxiety, follow-up tests, and the value of early detection. He ends up in a characteristically uncomfortable middle ground: the standard medical caution may be justified, but the case against screening is less obvious than the slogans on either side suggest.

https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/should-people-avoid-whole-body-screening?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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