Medical field has often been a prime target for manipulation. A lot of these "omg you have to have this checked!!!! or you'll dieeeey!!!" stuff turns out in followup studies to be useless to have checked after all. Breast Cancer and the yearly or whatever mamogram - does more harm than good because there are some false positives, and the dangerous cancers aren't being caught because they show up to quickly to be caught by a yearly (or whatever it is) test.
Medical field has often been a prime target for manipulation. A lot of these "omg you have to have this checked!!!! or you'll dieeeey!!!" stuff turns out in followup studies to be useless to have checked after all. Breast Cancer and the yearly or whatever mamogram - does more harm than good because there are some false positives, and the dangerous cancers aren't being caught because they show up to quickly to be caught by a yearly (or whatever it is) test.