Actually Carroll, I didn't write the report and neither did my wife. The information came from one of the best medical journals in the world. It goes some ways towards building up a body of data that refute diet fads promulgated by cranks.
I have no idea what superstition means; nor after your pathetic attempt at flame-bait, what radical intellectual means. However, if you're one, I'm not. Grow the fuck up.
Ian
Lisa & Ian Murray wrote:
>
> PARIS - Low-fat, high-fiber cereals trumpeted as health aids in
fact appear
> to encourage growths in the colon and rectum, according to
research in the
> Saturday issue of The Lancet.
The "full article" is not very full, but the relevant paragraph
is as follows:
"Of the 552 patients who completed a follow-up colonoscopy three years
later, at least one adenoma had developed in 16 percent of patients in the
calcium group; the rate was 29 percent in the fiber group and 20
percent in
the placebo group."
Does anyone on this list have the remotest idea of whether, in
reference to
the occurrence of adenomas, the difference between 16 percent and 29
percent is significant?
Does anyone know whether adenomas are more or less apt to become
malignant with this or that diet?
Does anyone on this list want to seriously claim that they know one
fucking more *usable* fact about malignancies after reading this
report?
I wonder how many people die, commit suicide, ruin their lives, lose
their health in one way or another because intelligent persons with
no medical training have passed on bits and pieces of "research" into
phyisical or mental health to them?
Before the recent exchanges on depression this post would not have
caught my attention. But I am beginning to think that one of the most
dangerous superstitions among radical intellectuals is that their radical
politics make them experts on medical matters. "Challenge Authority"
fat-headed new radicals proclaim with buttons. It is perhaps the most
dangerous political slogan ever coined.
Which authorities??????
Carrol