[semimojo]

...to remove any pilitical component from this argument is to have some honest researchers on our side perform the same study.

I ask again, what makes you think these researchers aren't on "our side"?

[aquila48]

What makes you think they are?

I don’t know, but my guess is that they are pretty neutral, so I tend to believe their results.

Many here in freeperland in typical knee jerk reaction dismiss it because it was published in JAMA, a publication they don’t trust.

I’m a skeptic by nature, so I naturally consider the sources of any info and the biases they have, but I don’t dismiss it out of hand. Neither do I automatically accept any info from a source on our side.