On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:37:13 -0500, Norman Skrzypinski <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>This is an article that may be of interest to some.  Much of what is
>discussed here has been covered in the Zone and Omega Diet books and
>elsewhere, but this is a good synopsis.  Also, the authors take issue with
>Sears' position vis-a-vis what he calls the "bad" Series 2 prostaglandins.
>
>http://www.price-pottenger.org/Articles/Prostaglandin.html

First off, this article misrepresents and oversimplifies Sears' position about
Series 2 prostaglandins.   He is certainly aware of all the information
presented in this article, and his own books note that the term "bad" is not
absolute, and make the same observations about the value of Series 2
prostaglandins.

Second, the authors of this article are frequently guilty of dubious reasoning
of the "If A implies B, and B implies C, then A implies C" sort.   This type of
reasoning is epidemic in "alternative medicine".   Along with this, we usually
find confusion of "causation" and "association" - a silly example might be that
if a study found that healthy people had sex more often than sick people, the
"alternative medicine" conclusion would be that more sex causes health (ignoring
the possibility of the opposite, or even a third factor causing both).

I'll leave as an exercise to the reader to find the incredible whopper that
involves this confusion of "causation" and "association"....


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Cheers,

Ken
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