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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Weight Loss with Dexfenfluramine
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.004533.22122@spdcc.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 00:45:33 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.111340.20507@omen.UUCP> <1992Nov11.172345.6216@spdcc.com> <1992Nov12.134825.28770@omen.UUCP>
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- In article <1992Nov12.134825.28770@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
- >At this point I must trust that Weintraub, Sundarsean, Madan, Schuster,
- >Balder, Lasagna, and Cox are competent researchers who are aware of the
- >issues they cover in their paper.
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- Argument from authority. You do them a disservice.
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- >The paper does mention that the lipid
- >profiles showed the subjects were not starting to cheat on the diet.
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- Get real. Lipid profiles indicate whether or not someone is cheating?
- Snort.
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- >Fact? More like somebody's "mind is made up, don't confuse me with facts."
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- You're joking, aren't you? I wouldn't try that argument if I were you,
- given your track record on this subject.
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- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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