In reply to Andrew. Prof. Gelman, I hope you are having a good weekend. I googled th...
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In reply to Vijayant B. Vijanant: It's hard to know what to think. The news article ...
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A related study on saturated fats. Prof. Gelman: I'd love to hear your thoughts. I've recently started following your blog. It's awesome! https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/12/th...
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"Since the very first nutritional guidelines to restrict saturated fat and cholesterol were released by the American Heart Association in 1961, Americans have been the subjects of a vast, uncontr...
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In reply to Jonathan. @jonathan The problem you refer to about trials is not a probl...
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In reply to Anon. Apropos Ornish's ignorance of statistics, this comes to mind: Stat...
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This is all very interesting, but putting my "we all gotta eat" hat on, it seems the thrust of the argument is that observational studies fail to find an effect because the effect is small and/or...
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In reply to Peter Blunt. As a layperson I thought Ioannidis refuted his critics.
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In reply to Kyle C. I disagree with Dean Omish. He does not justify that claim, what...
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Andrew: The "ultimate truth is still very unknown" Yes. And that is scandalous. Scandalous because the government has been issuing all kinds of diet advice on the basis of pretty shaky evidence o...
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In reply to Peter Blunt. Ornish: "In any scientific study, the question is: "What is...
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In reply to Nick Menzies. http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/give-me-all-the-b...
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Thanks a lot for posting this. Very interesting. Readers may also be interested in: JPA Ioannidis: Editorial: Implausible results in human nutrition research. British Medical Journal 2013, 347, 1...
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This is more of the between-within issue that is barely acknowledged in nutrition. The hypotheses in nutrition are about within person change, and yet their data overwhelmingly involve between-pe...
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It is interesting to read something (like the magazine article) which bears a message consistent with my priors, but which also comes off as partisan. Immediately makes me more sympathetic to the...
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