Saturday, May 31, 2014
Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
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Diet beverages shown to play positive role in dieters’ weight loss | Newsroom | University of Colorado Denver
This study clearly demonstrates that diet beverages can in fact help people lose weight, directly countering myths in recent years that suggest the opposite effect – weight gain
---Steve
The real reason why libertarians become climate-deniers | Talking Philosophy
The obsession of libertarians with individual liberty crowds out the value of truth. In the end, their thinking becomes voluntaristic and contrarian for the sake of it. They end up believing simply what they WANT to believe. And, as explained above, they don't WANT to accept the truths of ecology, of climate science, etc. . And so they deny them.
Friday, May 30, 2014
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Slate: Quantum and Consciousness Often Mean Nonsense
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/05/quantum_consciousness_physics_and_neuroscience_do_not_explain_one_another.html
---Steve
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Forks Over Knives: The Latest Vegan Nonsense Dissected, Debunked and Destroyed « AnthonyColpo
There was war-time rationing in Europe alright, and it involved a whole bunch of foodstuffs along with animal products. So we're faced with the same shonky extrapolation issue I just discussed a few moments ago; namely, using a multifactorial intervention to disingenuously sing the praises of a single intervention.
In the case of Norway, here are some of the potentially confounding changes recorded in the literature:
- Cod liver oil became a standard addition to war-time diets…hmmm…more omega-3s, vitamin D and vitamin A! Gee, that wouldn't have had any possible confounding effect on CVD would it, now? Naaah…
- Fish intake increased greatly (those omega-3′s again…)
- Intake of skim milk was higher throughout the war than before it.
- Added fats like margarine and butter declined.
- Intake of sugar declined markedly.
- Overall calorie intake went down. Anyone down for some weight loss-induced reductions in CVD?
And to top it all off, Denise reminds us that a rise in infectious disease mortality may in fact be the real reason behind the wartime drop in CVD deaths. It's pretty safe to say you won't die of CHD if tuberculosis kills you first…
---Steve
John Hiatt Mulls ‘Terms Of My Surrender’ (Song Premiere) - Speakeasy - WSJ
Sometimes love can be so wrong/Like a fat man in a thong
---Steve