[msf92497]

Butter
Red Meat
Wine
and soon Nicotine!!!

All so very bad for you...

[SteveMcKing]

People confuse "interesting" with "good" and "bad". Don't rush to judgement, is the lesson.

[Porterville]

Mc Donalds is good for you. the 1$ menu is the best health food.

[Vor Lady]

So does this mean, we should do the opposite of what the 'experts' tell us?

[topher]

So abortion really does cause breast cancer, contrary to what the AMA, JAMA, and other groups have been claiming for years. [ sarcasm /off ]

[kittymyrib]

Eating less and exercising more would do more for health in this country than any medical breakthrough. "Off your seat and on your feet," as my mother used to say. Not only would this empty hospital beds and medicine cabinets, but it would bankrupt the weight-control industry that counts on the fat of the land for their profit. It means limiting portions and limiting the time spent in front of the TV and computer, but it's the only way to live longer.

[Desdemona]

So, what worked for all my relatives and ancestors who lived into their upper 80's and 90's is okay? Live moderately, eat a balanced diet and take Sunday off when possible to de-stress?

With the occasional martini, sounds good to me.

[FairWitness]

Interesting. I'm pretty sure I worked (in the preclinical phase) on the one referred to here: And a study suggested that an antibody treatment did not improve survival in certain sepsis patients; a smaller previous study found the opposite.

If they are referring, as I think they may be, to "TFPI" (tissue factor pathway inhibitor) which is an antibody that inhibits blood coagulation (one of the final "symptoms" before death in sepsis) it certainly was an expensive lesson. It was very impressive in preclinical trials in monkeys where (given immediately) it protected against sepsis caused by massive IV doses of E. coli. Trouble was, the causes of human clinical sepsis are more complicated and diverse and TFPI didn't do any good against some of them. And timing is everything - by the time you diagnose the causative agent in sepsis, it may be too late for any treatment to work. So clinical trials were pure hell. Half the time you realized after the fact that the patient was inappropriate for the treatment, but by then they were dead.

In addition, as a wise old statistician once told me "if you need statistics to tell you if your treatment worked, you probably should do the experiment over again anyway".

[razoroccam]

Which is why one should always vote against something before voting for it.