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firecat (attention machine in need of calibration) ([personal profile] firecat) wrote2006-08-23 11:11 am

I [heart] Paul Campos

The New England Journal of Medicine has released a new study of fat and mortality. Paul Campos deftly analyzes the data that the new study was based on:

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/columnist/1,1299,DRMN_86_105,00.html

[identity profile] dawnd.livejournal.com 2006-08-23 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Beautiful.
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[personal profile] libskrat 2006-08-23 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

[identity profile] wild-irises.livejournal.com 2006-08-23 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Glorious!
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[identity profile] apis-mellifera.livejournal.com 2006-08-23 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Paul Campos is a god among men.

[identity profile] klwalton.livejournal.com 2006-08-23 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I've forwarded this article to Bob Bazell, who is the medical correspondent for NBC News (and with whom we've worked countless times) with a little note. Watching his report of this study, I about pounded my head into the television screen; he fell for it hook, line and sinker, and he damn well ought to know better.

*sigh*

[identity profile] sistercoyote.livejournal.com 2006-08-23 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Would you be comfortable sharing the end result of that correspondence with us (assuming there is any)?

[identity profile] klwalton.livejournal.com 2006-08-23 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
If there *is* an end result, as in another story being done, I'll share it.

[identity profile] dreamalynn.livejournal.com 2006-08-23 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I love it. Unfortunately, Campos "has an agenda" and "isn't even a doctor or researcher" so the fatphobes dismiss his findings and continue to use absolute junk science to justify our continued subjugation, villification and positioning as subject of derision, scorn and hatred.

[identity profile] cha.livejournal.com 2006-08-23 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm never sure if i WANT to read new studies heh

[identity profile] miz-geek.livejournal.com 2006-08-24 10:30 am (UTC)(link)
Excellent.