[Ads-l] Trumpian levels of invective - 4 Feb 2016

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Feb 8 17:52:29 UTC 2016


> On Feb 8, 2016, at 12:43 PM, Joel Berson <berson at att.net> wrote:
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> The article has its problems too.
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> "For example, the scientists might notice that people who eat lots of one specific food, say broccoli, get cancer more often. The scientists might then report that broccoli is "associated" with heart disease."
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> Joel

Seems reasonable.  If you eat broccoli you'll come down with cancer, if you come down with cancer there's a good chance you'll die from it, which makes you less likely than your broccoli-avoiding counterparts to live long enough develop heart disease.  QED.

LH
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>      From: Benjamin Barrett <mail.barretts at GMAIL.COM>
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
> Sent: Sunday, February 7, 2016 9:31 PM
> Subject: [ADS-L] Trumpian levels of invective - 4 Feb 2016
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> "What this scathing exchange between top scientists reveals about what nutritionists actually know” in the The Washington Post
> by Peter Whoriskey
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__wapo.st_20tthoq&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=ESCzyM-dwIBbma_knUqUBibTyvBqRzIMEcrfHKwbqPE&s=ckv9bJQxqDMuxb1ROuGOqc7tNaqkwQkjUd0bocy0ZWY&e=  <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__wapo.st_20tthoq&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=ESCzyM-dwIBbma_knUqUBibTyvBqRzIMEcrfHKwbqPE&s=ckv9bJQxqDMuxb1ROuGOqc7tNaqkwQkjUd0bocy0ZWY&e= >
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> That much was interesting enough. But in recent weeks one exchange has gone even farther, at times approaching Trumpian levels of invective, over whether nutrition scientists... well, actually know what they’re talking about.
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> Benjamin Barrett
> Formerly of Seattle, WA
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