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Instructor in Medicine Joann E. Manson '75, who is also working on the Women's Health Study with Hennekens, ran a survey of aspirin effects on women...
...Manson's experiment lacked the formality of Hennekens's study of men and was consequently less conclusive, she says...
...Manson had tracked the health of 87,000 nurses for six years, some of whom used aspirin on a weekly basis and some of whom...
...study did not have strong validity for procedural reasons, says Manson. Since it only was a survey, it lacked formality and control of biases. "We need a randomized trial in an experimental study to provide conclusive evidence," Manson says...
...year or two later, as the earth again entered the trail of cometary debris, it met a second, smaller chunk. Where did the second impact occur? This time no search is necessary. Shoemaker points to a well-known crater, 35 km (22 miles) across, that lies partly buried near Manson, Iowa. Its age, established by radioactive dating: 65 million years. / Shoemaker believes the new findings will help persuade more scientists to "get off the fence" and side with the Alvarez theory. "Chicxulub is the smoking cannon," he says, "and Manson is the smoking pistol...