Re: creating and using facts in science

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:04:24 -0700, Dusty Bleher <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Yep. Good catch, TC.

The same goes for that old adage we keep hearing about how bad dietary
fats
are for you. Just try to find any peer-reviewed study that supports
that in
any medical journal of your choice. All of the hew-and-cry about fats
came
from a reporter covering a senate hearing about one thing or another, and
misstating what he'd overheard. Repeated often enough, it not only
became
fact, it spawned an entire industry promulgating and servicing that
"fact".

So sad that we've become a nation of sheep...

Dusty

I don't think we've become a nation of sheep. I think you have to ask,
Who benefits from the belief that fat is bad? Or a corollary, Who
benefits from a belief that high cholesterol is bad? When you ask
yourself those and similar questions, you know who is funding the studies
that "prove" whatever they want to prove.

I do think that America is getting overweight. I can see this in our
stores and walkways. It's a side issue as to whether that's bad for
anyone. However, for me, I still want to get lower in weight. I don't
plan on getting to "normal" category of BMI, though, as I have too much
muscle to ever be in that category.

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Bob M
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