Medicine holds nothing on paleoclimatology. Both (at least commercial
cholesterol/CHD research) use highly questionable statistical techniques
to try and tease a signal out of noise far greater than the signal.
Chuck Norcutt
Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
> OK, thank you - I will, for sure.
>
> I wish that my English would be up to the task of writing a short
> answer underlining the huge gap between the weakness of validity in
> Medicine when compared to other fields of knowledge.
>
> Fernando.
>
> 2010/8/27 Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> You shouldn't have left me such a wide opening. I invite you to read
>> starting here
>> <http://thincs.org/>
>> With a prestigious list of members here
>> <http://thincs.org/members.htm>
>> and especially this guy
>> <http://www.ravnskov.nu/uffe.htm>
>> and a bit of human biochemistry and statistics here
>> <http://thincs.org/Malcolm.choltheory.htm>
>>
>> Or, for a little light reading try these two papers:
>>
>> Krumholz HM, Seeman TE, Merrill SS, et al. Lack of association between
>> cholesterol and coronary heart disease mortality and morbidity and
>> all-cause mortality in persons older than 70 years. JAMA 1994;272:1335-1340.
>>
>> Schatz IJ, Masaki K, Yano K, Chen R, Rodriguez BL, Curb JD. Cholesterol
>> and all-cause-mortality in elderly people from the Honolulu Heart
>> Program: a cohort study. Lancet 2001; 358: 351-55
>>
>> In a nutshell, folks older than 70 (and actually, much less than that)
>> live longer the higher their cholesterol. Why is that when heart
>> disease is a disease of the elderly?
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt (the denier)
>>
>>
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