Re: Food

In article <1141513428.613428.145800@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve Crane <eodemolay@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Baloney - You can't back up your position and by refusing to answer you
simply make it obvious that is the case.

I don't have specific expertise in dog nutrition. I don't
need it to know, however, that you're a scientific
incompetent and that you misrepresent the papers you wave
around like an itty bitty tallywhacker. And the reason I
know is that I do have specific expertise in experimental
design and I'm competent in statistics, I've chaired
conferences and reviewed papers for publication in
scientific journals, and I recognize horseshit when I see
it. I'm not claiming to be an expert in nutrition. I'm
pointing out that you're not, either, and that you're lying
when you say you are. For example, when I was in graduate
school I took an applied regression class in the graduate
school of business, and fairly early in the quarter the
professor extrapolated off the end of a distribution showing
an inverse relationship between job satisfaction and
compensation to "prove" that you'd be able to get a bunch of
old people to work for you for free because they'd be happy
to have someplace to go every day (his words). He made a
really basic statistical error when he went off the ends of
the distribution. That's precisely the sort of thing I
don't think you understand. I also believe, based on what
you've posted here over the years, that you either don't
understand or don't respect experimental constraints.

So frankly, when you say one thing and people who do
nutritional research and whose papers survive peer review
say another, I'm going to tend to believe them, not you, and
suspect that the reason for the difference is that you don't
understand what you read.
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Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - shore@xxxxxxxxx

Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community.
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