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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

Date: 23 Aug 2006 07:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamalynn.livejournal.com
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.

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