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Originally Posted by axmea?
Oh wow. I get where the numbers were taken from. It's the blog oriented, freelance writing, and minimal review that I was pointing out. Clearly the writing is to stir up thought and debate but is it entirely true?
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Well, a healthy amount of skepticism is a very good thing and something we see often in inquiring minds. I'd not criticize someone for a healthy and reasonable amount of skepticism. I think skeptics are the ones that save us from the dreaded "common knowledge."
What I will say, and what puzzled me about some of the comments here, is there really is little more than a rehash of numbers in the article and those numbers, as I suggested earlier, do tell us something. DE rightly pointed out that our CONCLUSIONS must be tempered by things like the sample size, methods, study design, etc.; that we be careful in ascribing too much meaning to the numbers.