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jules schagen van leeuwen   (12 January 2004)

prevention or cure? 12 January 2004
jules schagen van leeuwen, gynaecologist st antonius hospital 3435 em nieuwegein netherlands Send response to journal: Re: prevention or cure?	sir, Karl Popper, having fled from philistine philosophy, remarked already: "in the realm of error, cure is better than prevention". overenthusiastic scientists, politicians etc, tend to ignore that the "realm of error" in which we live is large. prevention is only permissible in well understood and controllable conditions. sincerely yours, jules schagen van leeuwen Competing interests: None declared