<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Dave Sill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="2">On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:58 AM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000" size="2">If you want to be truly disgusted with scientists (and of course, the food industry), this is for you.</font></div></blockquote></div><font size="2"><br></font></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><font size="2">I think the government deserves most of the blame but there's plenty to go around.<span><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></font></div><span><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><font size="2">-Dave<br></font></div></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">And just who does the gov. ask? Experts. Mostly medical people, I assume, the most conservative profession existing, and the one most punitive of contrarians, no matter how right they are.</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">A quote I have seen before addresses that: it stresses that real knowledge is first denied, esp. if controversial, and more esp. if it will cost lots of money to those who are doing the conventional thing. Lastly it becomes the new norm and those who oppose it are seen as dummies. And no one gets sued by following it in the medical ranks. Or the suer loses as soon as the expert witness agrees that this is standard medical practice.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Maybe we should invent a scientific court of appeals. Some level above peer reviewed journals, using meta analysis or strongly suggesting it, as well as setting some standards for replication. Is there anything like this? Why not?</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">This nutritional fat/heart problem bumbled along for decades with inadequate data</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">and arguably made billions fat. It should have been resolved long ago. But not one is as mossbacked as the medical profession unless it's the Mississippi legislature.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">bill w</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><font size="2"></font><br></div></font></span></div>
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