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- From: hillyard@msc.cornell.edu
- Subject: Re: Are Whites Worse Off in the Deep South?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.075523.21075@msc.cornell.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 07:55:23 GMT
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- From article <1ehoq5INNksp@hp-sdd.sdd.hp.com>, by teri off is less@sdd.hp.com (Teri Tracey):
- > 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.
-
- Sure, you've got to weigh the data. The cholesterol research is
- relatively recent and probably wasn't duplicated by others before being
- trumpeted by the media. I've seen two new theories on how to lower heart
- attack risk in the last couple months: red wine and periodically
- donating blood (This one was actually somewhat interesting. The theory
- is that excess iron increases risk of heart attacks. Explaining why women's
- risk suddenly increases after menopause, why daily asprin decreases risk--
- tends to cause slight intestinal bleeding, why high meat intake increases
- risk--lots of iron, etc). Of course you take these theories with a grain
- of salt, even when backed up by a study or two. However, things like
- smoking and a high fat diet have been shown again and again to be detrimental
- to your heart, so should certainly be taken seriously.
-
- Its up to you to decide whether 20 research labs and over a hundred
- professionals are good evidence. If there is not any substantial evidence
- against I'd be inclined to believe 'em. (And hey, quit ridiculing the
- Flat Earth Society, the evidence is not in, the world actually is flat.)
-
- SEH
-