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Yep. I’ve always been intrigued by the Monty Hall problem. Good article.

“To those who believe – no proof is necessary. To those who disbelieve – no amount of proof is sufficient.”

I think the quote is from St. Ignatius of Loyola. It’s a good one and right on the mark.

I will definately be getting this book. I totally understand the message it’s conveying. After a bad divorce and 20+ years in a govt job (horrors!) I adopted a personal mantra. “The truth is what you believe it to be”. We all have our own truths, and through rationalization, ignorance, or just plain stubbornness, if we think it’s the TRUTH then it is..period. A hard and sometimes hurtful lesson to learn, but nonetheless enlightening and if you let it be, very freeing. Hopefully, we can learn from others and adjust our truths as needed, but don’t count on it. After years of hurt and frustration trying to help others see the “real truth” about any number of things, I realized that I should spend those efforts making sure my truths were true for me using facts and resources that I trust (still a perception, but hey..)

Thanks for all your interesting posts. You’re willingness to explore many avenues of thinking as well as continue to learn all you can is an inspiration and a joy to read

-Kim

I look on things a little differently. I like to think of the real honest-to-God truth as being represented by a big circle. Then I think of my own definition of the truth as a big circle. The more these two circles overlap, the greater my sanity. I also like to use that same representation as a measure of sanity as a function of our picture of ourselves verses other’s pictures of us. I think of a big circle representing a person’s view of him/herself and another big circle as the rest of the world’s view of that person. The more overlap, the greater sanity in the individual so evaluated.

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That same syntax could be used to temper the ‘resistant starch’ hoopla that’s spreading now.

Agreed.

Nope, I’ve just been traveling and had limited access to the computer.

I worked in a drug company and I can tell you my co-workers really believed they were helping people – even when the statistics showed otherwise. Massive cognitive dissonance.

From Bear Stearns, to Drug Companies, to a President thinking he is saving the world by blowing it up, human nature is full of endless surprises!

So i didn’t read it all.
If Senor Taubes marshalls the evidence that
1 cutting cals doesnt work
2 upping he exercise doesn’t work

Does he actually come to any suggestions aside from the low cal lifestyle ?

As i don’t have a copy it dawned on me the other day i might have missed massively if he drew other conclusions

If anyone can edify me i’d be well chuffed.

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And inadavce thanks so very much for yr kindness in asnwering.
A room in Vancouver await should you visit on hols..seriously.

Simon (Aloicious Fellows)

Hey Simon–

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What of fish oil, and krill oil, then? The words imply a zero-fat diet would be best. Probably a sound bite, but the careless wording betrays the dissonance.

Indeed!

The problem with Ornish’s statement is that he has never isolated those effects from his own studies. When will he do a study comparing his diet to a low-carb diet with no other lifestyle interventions? No stress reduction, counseling, group support, meditation, exercise, smoking cessation, etc. He criticizes epidemiological studies for overlooking confounding factors, but then he conducts studies on living people and makes the same unscientific error. He puts all the blame for disease on fat, without even considering all the PUFAs and trans fats as being a causal factor in the modern epidemics of disease. So, he’s a hypocrite, and he never worries about confounding variables in his own mult-intervention studies.

I’ve made the same observation many times.