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    #602
    rocksteady36
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭rocksteady36


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    #603
    metamorphosis
    Registered Users Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭metamorphosis


    El_Dangeroso wrote: »

    I've advised the other half to have me committed if I ever decide to do a part time masters again.


    Thanks, now I know what i'm letting myself in for !


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    #604
    rocky
    Registered Users Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭rocky


    El_Dangeroso wrote: »
    Hello!!! End of August, it's going sooo slowly, and it would really help if every second paper didn't contradict the one before. I'm learning a lot about leptin, but that might not even turn out to be relevant now. :/Science is so damn inconclusive, I laugh at myself of 3 years ago, ah to be that sure of anything again!

    I've advised the other half to have me committed if I ever decide to do a part time masters again.

    Physics or Mathematics, no inconclusiveness there ;)


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    #605
    El_Dangeroso
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    rocky wrote: »
    Physics or Mathematics, no inconclusiveness there ;)

    I dunno, have you seen two statisticians argue? It's vicious!


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    #606
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    shaved today to discover I only have 1.5 chins instead of 2, progress!


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    #607
    Red Cortina
    Registered Users Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Red Cortina


    rocky wrote: »
    Physics or Mathematics, no inconclusiveness there ;)
    You're back!


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    #608
    rocky
    Registered Users Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭rocky


    just driving by... carry on :cool:


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    #609
    El_Dangeroso
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    I have such a huge girl crush on Denise Minger
    denise_september.jpeg?w=400&h=301

    I'm just gonna link to this talk next time a crazy vegan posts on the forum:

    http://vimeo.com/27792352


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    #610
    rocky
    Registered Users Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭rocky


    she's very funny, luckily she's on 'our' side :)

    'soybean cow, sugar hippopotamus'


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    #611
    Ice.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 147 ✭✭Ice.


    El_Dangeroso wrote: »
    I'm just gonna link to this talk next time a crazy vegan posts on the forum:

    http://vimeo.com/27792352

    Ah, Denise Minger. The gift that keeps on giving. What a load of waffle. She talks alot but says very little TBH. The gist of her argument seems to be that vegan-promoting doctors are taking part in a big conspiracy to hide the fact that as well as eating a plant based diet they get their patients to cut out junk food and exercise a bit more. I don't know about you but that's shocking stuff altogether!


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    #612
    El_Dangeroso
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    Ice. wrote: »
    Ah, Denise Minger. The gift that keeps on giving. What a load of waffle. She talks alot but says very little TBH. The gist of her argument seems to be that vegan-promoting doctors are taking part in a big conspiracy to hide the fact that as well as eating a plant based diet they get their patients to cut out junk food and exercise a bit more. I don't know about you but that's shocking stuff altogether!

    Ah Ice, your cognitive dissonance knows no bounds, she said nothing about conspiracy whatsoever. In fact the only people I hear talk of conspiracy are people looking to discredit her. Sad really.


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    #613
    Ice.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 147 ✭✭Ice.


    El_Dangeroso wrote: »
    Ah Ice, your cognitive dissonance knows no bounds, she said nothing about conspiracy whatsoever. In fact the only people I hear talk of conspiracy are people looking to discredit her. Sad really.

    She was trying to make out that these doctors were somehow trying to conceal the fact that they had their patients give up junk food and exercise a bit more in addition to a plant based diet. However, I'm not the one who has a "huge girl crush" on Denise and hoisted her up on a pedestal so I would check my impartiality if I were you and I don't need to discredit her as she does a great job of it herself.


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    #614
    El_Dangeroso
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    Ice. wrote: »
    She was trying to make out that these doctors were somehow trying to conceal the fact that they had their patients give up junk food and exercise a bit more in addition to a plant based diet. However, I'm not the one who has a "huge girl crush" on Denise and hoisted her up on a pedestal so I would check my impartiality if I were you and I don't need to discredit her as she does a great job of it herself.

    Nope, she pointed out that the doctors failed to account for the other factors in their multi-factorial interventions. That's just science.


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    #615
    Ice.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 147 ✭✭Ice.


    El_Dangeroso wrote: »
    Nope, she pointed out that the doctors failed to account for the other factors in their multi-factorial interventions. That's just science.

    But they didn't. Minger is very selective with the truth and likes to lead her audience.


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    #616
    El_Dangeroso
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    Ice. wrote: »
    But they didn't.

    Yes they did. You account for other variables by controlling for them. They did not do this.


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    #617
    Ice.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 147 ✭✭Ice.


    El_Dangeroso wrote: »
    Yes they did. You account for other variables by controlling for them. They did not do this.

    Sigh.

    Take off your Minger-tinted glasses.


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    #618
    El_Dangeroso
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    Ice. wrote: »
    Sigh.

    Take off your Minger-tinted glasses.

    Nice ignoring of my point there.


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    Ice.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 147 ✭✭Ice.


    El_Dangeroso wrote: »
    Nice ignoring of my point there.

    Because your "point" is without merit.


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    #620
    El_Dangeroso
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    Ice. wrote: »
    Because your "point" is without merit.

    If it is without merit, then it should be easy to disprove. In which case show me how they controlled for multiple variables. But you can't, because they didn't.


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    #621
    Ice.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 147 ✭✭Ice.


    El_Dangeroso wrote: »
    If it is without merit, then it should be easy to disprove. In which case show me how they controlled for multiple variables. But you can't, because they didn't.

    Just read their literature.


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    #622
    El_Dangeroso
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    Ice. wrote: »
    Just read their literature.

    I've read their papers. They didn't control for multiple interventions.


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    #623
    Ice.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 147 ✭✭Ice.


    El_Dangeroso wrote: »
    I've read their papers. They didn't control for multiple interventions.

    Of course you have.


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    #624
    El_Dangeroso
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    Ice. wrote: »
    Of course you have.

    I have, have you?


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    Ice.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 147 ✭✭Ice.


    El_Dangeroso wrote: »
    I have, have you?

    Absolutely.


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    #626
    El_Dangeroso
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    Ice. wrote: »
    Absolutely.

    Great, so point out where they controlled the multiple interventions then.


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    #627
    Ice.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 147 ✭✭Ice.


    El_Dangeroso wrote: »
    Great, so point out where they controlled the multiple interventions then.

    I see what you did there. Very clever, however I'm not going to read the literature for you I'm afraid.


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    #628
    El_Dangeroso
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    Ice. wrote: »
    I see what you did there. Very clever, however I'm not going to read the literature for you I'm afraid.

    Hahaha, you can't point out the controls because there weren't any. Actually do you even know the Titles of their papers?


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    #629
    Blatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Blatter


    Oh Ice.

    Why don't you post more often, you're great entertainment:pac:


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    #630
    Ice.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 147 ✭✭Ice.


    Blatter wrote: »
    Why don't you post more often

    I would but I seem to anger the hive mind and then get told by mods not to post in threads again or I will be banned. They don't like the paleo/low carb doctrine being challenged around here I guess.


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    #631
    El_Dangeroso
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    Ice. wrote: »
    I would but I seem to anger the hive mind and then get told by mods not to post in threads again or I will be banned. They don't like the paleo/low carb doctrine being challenged around here I guess.

    Still waiting for you to point out where they controlled for multiple interventions though. Any update on that?


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