Food for thought ?

[Kent C]

True enough, Kent. I was thinking of a nice comfy 70 degrees.

I know (poke poke) Lol... 70 degrees - which is where I am after plowing 6 inches of snow.... although my body temp may have decreased some

 

[Uma]

Been a fan of Tom Naughton since watching Fat Head a couple of years ago. Another video of his "Science for Smart People" may be even more interesting to our community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1RXvBveht0

Great video!
I hope he does a study on the 2nd hand smoke studies. .

 

[rothenbj]

yup, we sure did.
I think I should buy the book "The vision of the annointed" - we have enough of that crap going on all the time.

Oh, and if I believed in junk science, I would be taking stuff to lower my cholesterol level.
As high blood cholesterol increases one's relative chance of getting a heart attack by 50%.
Which translates into a 2% increase in the absolute chance of getting a heart attack (!)

My suspicion of unnecessary "lifestyle" medication and my refusal to put drugs into my body just to lower some stats may well have saved my life - Bayer faces shake up after Lipobay withdrawn | BMJ

And that was before I read Dr Ben Goldacre's book "Bad Science" which clearly explains this scam.

- In case somebody is interested in the math underlying the cholesterol scare:

100 men aged 50. Statistics say:
With normal cholesterol levels, 4 may get a heart attack.
With high cholesterol levels, 6 may get a heart attack.

6 minus 4 = 2
- High cholesterol increases your absolute chance of getting a heart attack by 2% (2 of 100)

BUT
2 is 50% of 4
Thus, high cholesterol increases your relative chance of getting a heart attack by 50%. (4 + 2 = 6, and 2 is 50% of 4)

I call BS
And I will take that - 2% absolute - chance.

Anj, the more I read your posts the more I understand why I loved Germany the few times business took me there plus some very thinly sliced Gaenseleberwurst which was absolutely heavenly.

I'm of the same opinion. Your body tells you when you're doing something too often that is not good for it. Like my back is telling me that, after cleaning the snow out of my 100 yard driveway and off two decent sized decks plus unloading and then stacking a cord of wood, its very tired. I adjust my diet when I start feeling "not normal".

I figure that after smoking 43 years something has to fail sooner or later, but as long as I'm feeling okay, I'm okay. I've made it this far without docs poking around looking for something to treat, I'm not about to start now.

 

[Kent C]

Great video!
I hope he does a study on the 2nd hand smoke studies. .

Not Naughton but there's this:

Second Hand Smoke Bull.... - Penn & Teller - YouTube

skip first 2 or 3 minutes and warning: language

For a deeper analysis of the EPA's 'metastudy' that misused statistics in order to get to their desired 'press release' on second-hand smoke:

http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regulation/1993/7/v16n3-5.pdf

http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regulation/1998/10/lies.pdf

 

[Uma]

Not Naughton but there's this:

Second Hand Smoke Bull.... - Penn & Teller - YouTube

skip first 2 or 3 minutes and warning: language

For a deeper analysis of the EPA's 'metastudy' that misused statistics in order to get to their desired 'press release' on second-hand smoke:

http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regulation/1993/7/v16n3-5.pdf

http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regulation/1998/10/lies.pdf

They sure nailed that! Thanks for these!

 

[Vocalek]

I know, dear.
But Dr. Oz obviously does not know that

From what I have observed, there's a lot that Dr. Oz doesn't know.

 

[Uma]

I like comment on his FB diet pill ad.. "The DR. in Dr. Oz stands for Drug Representative".