Thursday, June 5, 2014

Money Can't Buy You Love, or Truth

"Saturated fat does not cause heart disease"—or so concluded a big study published in March in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. All of the diets, the interviews, the studies, the proclamations, the government suggestions--all were wrong, despite the overwhelming consensus.

The Samoans were just kidding Margaret Mead. The banning of DDT has made everyone outside the malaria areas feel better; it has been a malaria-preservation project otherwise. Supporting sub-prime mortgages actually will discourage home ownership. The Communist dictatorships actually can not manage economies. 

Science is tougher than it looks. And it will always be imperfect because people are doing it. And when you add money, power and elitism it gets harder.

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