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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Science for smart people
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:31:13 -0400
Thanks, George.  I'd not heard of Tom Naughton before.  He's pretty 
good.  My doctor should attend his lecture.  He only knows what his drug 
reps tell him and wouldn't recognize a statistically significant number 
if it bit him.

Chuck Norcutt

On 9/29/2011 2:17 PM, George Themelis wrote:
> I am going back to the totally out of topic discussion about cholesterol and
> heart attacks.  I found this video, from a presentation by comedian Tom
> Naughton, on the 4th Annual Low-Carb Cruise.  Tom is the writer/direction of
> the movie FatHead (which I just got in the mail but have not had a chance to
> watch it).
>
> This is a long (45 minutes) but entertaining presentation, which for me
> could be a lecture in a university on observational and clinical studies.
> Many of our beliefs about the effect of cholesterol, fat, salt, etc., comes
> from news titles which, in tern, are inspired from actual observational and
> clinical studies.  Tom explains what this means.  What are observational
> studies and what are clinical studies?  How to critically look at these
> studies and draw your own conclusions, instead of depending on reporters to
> summarize the conclusions of the study with a catchy title like "Eating eggs
> will make you fat" etc.
>
> I am sure you will enjoy this presentation and become a bit more skeptical
> about what conventional medical science says we should be doing, knowing how
> this advice was derived.
>
> Here is the link to the YouTube video:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1RXvBveht0
>
> George
>
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