Ben,
Thanks for posting this. I read some of this article, but got sick to my stomach! You so are right about them being so wrong!
Sometimes I cannot believe how the activity that we call "science" can be so entrenched with commercial interests and how individual scientists must be corrupted (or at least corruptible) in order to appear so intellectually dishonest! I mean: What does it take to state ANY confidence in a notion that "potatoes, etc" (read: carbohydrates) are the dietary change that enlarged our brain?! I cannot BELIEVE the lack of any talk of fatty acids in this article! It should be a crime to leave those out of the article!
Those in the future will look back at this article (realizing the known science that was omitted) and say that we were so dishonestly greedy at one time that we didn't reasonably care about truth & understanding.
Ed
Dissect & analyze your perceptions to minimize the imperfections infecting your thoughts (think right)
Dissect & analyze your expectations to minimize the imperfections infecting your feelings (feel right)
Dissect & analyze the gaps between your personal power & your wisdom to minimize the imperfections infecting your behavior (act right)
Strive to obtain & maintain a level of consciousness or awareness that is appropriate to each life experience (live right)
-Ed Thompson (ca 2001) >From: "Balzer, Ben" <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Paleolithic Diet Symposium List <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Sciam Human Evolution Special >Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:44:17 +1000 > >http://www.sciam.com/special/toc.cfm?issueid=11&sc=rt_nav_list > >Scientific American have a special on human evolution which has something to >offend just about everybody. > >There are article on many aspects including diet, childbirth etc. I haven't >read much of it yet, but thought I'd post it up as it won't be on the news >stands much longer. > >The article on "if humans were built" to last focuses on the (totally >incorrect) assumptions of western medicine that diseases like osteoporosis >and osteoarthritis are inevitable (and presumably of genetic origin). Indeed >I thought the paleopathological evidence was clear that osteoarthritis was >rare (aside from in a spear throwing elbow or next to a fracture), and that >osteoporotic fractures were only found in Inuit (which may relate to their >extreme diet). I hope one day that this article may be used by medical >historians to show how blinkered thinking was in our day. > >Dr Ben Balzer [log in to unmask] >109 Morgan St >Beverly Hills 2209 >NSW Australia >Tel (02) 95023355 Fax (02) 95024243 Int'l prefix(+612)