Re: The green house effect - one of Thatcher's lies?

Thus spake Albert Ross <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:20:23 +0000, Oh No
<NotI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


IMNSHO that's where a lot of medical research goes wrong, it's
postulated on a single population with a bell curve when all genetic
research demonstrates there are a whole bunch of often overlapping
genetic populations each of which may respond quite differently to the
same input.

I think a lot of it goes wrong because the pharmaceutical companies try
to fix the results

The models are probably pretty good as long as you ignore all the
outliers. To get them in needs a whole other level of complexity in
the modelling.

Usually the complexity is provided by hoodwinking a lot of doctors to
make statement to the effect that they cant ascribe the side effects to
the drug, after ensuring that they don't see evidence which would allow
them to do so.

Hence a diet or drug which may benefit the majority of the population
may have entirely non-beneficial results on a significant minority.

As a climatological example, maybe the degree of cloud cover has
different effects at different latitudes . . .

I'm sure it does. And at different heights, and whether it forms in day
or night.


Regards

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