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- From: teri@sdd.hp.com (Teri Tracey)
- Newsgroups: alt.feminism
- Subject: Re: Are Whites Worse Off in the Deep South?
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 20:16:05 -0800
- Organization: Hell's Little Breakfast Nook
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- In article <1ec9ovINNi1d@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> schultz@unixg.ubc.ca (Stewart Schultz) writes:
- >
- >Gordon Fitch:
- >>I'm well aware of such
- >>studies, and in general I don't trust them.
- >
- >Do you mean to imply here that your own casual assessment that white
- >people are worse off is less biased and more valid than the independent
- >consensus of over 20 research labs across the continent, and over 100
- >professional psychologists and sociologists, in careful peer-reviewed
- >research?
-
- The media does a great job of disseminating this so-called "careful
- research" from well-paid scientists around the world that directly
- contradicts itself every few years or so. Look at the medical community,
- which publishes lots of contradictory research. High cholesterol causes
- heart attacks, so low cholesterol is better. Oh, no, low cholesterol
- patients have just as many heart attacks. See below article. Increase
- your intake of oat bran, it lowers your cholesterol. No, fiber does nothing
- for your cholesterol. Careful research, perhaps, but not totally
- infallible. Gotta take it with a grain of salt. Seems to me a while
- back everyone thought the earth was flat, too.
-
- >>...even if a slave-owner were relatively less happy
- >>than his slaves, it would not make slavery right.
- >
- >I'm afraid that this particular ethical question is not relevant to your
- >assertion that white people in the Deep South are worse off than black
- >people.
-
- It's relevant to the basic assertion that relative "happiness" is a good
- indicator of satisfaction with life. For example, you claim that women
- have no right to assert that they are less well-off, since they are just as
- happy as men. Who is to say that *men* are as happy as they can be? What
- *is* happiness, anyway?
-
- Teri
- --------------
- Reported in the Oct. 18, 1992 Mercury News were the results of
- a study on cholesterol which indicates that low levels are not
- always healthier.
-
- The study has prompted some experts to suggest scaling back
- the national cholesterol-reduction programs. "The most
- startling finding: In women, cholesterol levels appeared to
- have no influence on how often they died from all causes.
- High-cholesterol women died at the same rate as low-cholesterol
- women. In men, the only groups that died more often were those
- whose cholesterol was either very high or very low. Men with
- moderate to borderline high cholesterol - which includes 64%
- of US men - didn't die any more often."
-
- The article went on to discuss various aspects of the study
- as well as the predictable critizisms by those saying it can't
- be true. Also mentioned were other studies indicating a link
- between very low cholesterol levels and higher rates of suicide,
- homicide, and accidents.
-