Follow the science! Or not….
No End to Parallel Universes in Nutrition
How about a multiverse where nutritionists always get exactly the answer they want from their studies?
As Alpha Waymond might put it, sure.
This scenario is in fact our reality, according to a recent analysis published in The Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. Nutrition science, and particularly nutritional epidemiology, has a multiverse problem, the paper asserts, and it’s yet another reason to be very skeptical of this research.
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At the heart of the multiverse problem in nutrition is a simple concept known as “analytical flexibility.” No consensus exists in nutrition science about how best to analyze data from the numerous epidemiological surveys that have appeared in the last 60 years to try to make sense of the diet-lifestyle-disease relationship. The epidemiologists have never done the necessary hard work to establish which of any number of strategies and techniques is reliably correct.
Any analytical strategy, as Zeraatkar explained in an interview, can involve hundreds, if not thousands of decisions, large and small, about how best to conduct an analysis.2 Hence, the uncertainty in the diet-health associations that these studies produce is not just about whether we can trust, for instance, that the self-reported dietary data accurately reflects what people really ate, but all the particular decision points made by the researchers doing these analyses. A different analytic technique or different decisions about how best to handle the data can produce different answers – a different multiverse of answers, in effect. Use one set of criteria, and the diet or lifestyle factor of interest will be associated with an increased risk of a particular disease; use a different set of criteria, and the reverse appears true. How do we know which is right? Which multiverse is our reality, the one we’re living in?
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One obvious implication was that researchers looking for publishable results could easily make the decisions – consciously or subconsciously – to get the results they wanted, whether or not that was the correct result.3
Alzheimer’s/dementia are truly one of Satan’s must evil and heinous diseases.
https://youtu.be/MvcIDtmt4qo?si=vndPas3uFtGGU2kW
I truly hate this whole Alzheimer’s/dementia thing.
I just buried a 62-year-old good friend and victim of it last weekend.
Shannon
So I take it the computer is not broken broke as in broke. At your leisure give Harper my phone number. have her call me and i will give it a shot getting her on line.
Three of us talked to Harper tonight. I was the last one to talk to her. She knew who I was. I asked her quite a few questions about various subjects. She was pretty cogent and responded pretty well. She bought some kind of new computer rig but getting it running right is less of a priority right now than… Read more »
I’ve been looking into doing stuff with polymer clay. I can make artisan beads for my rosaries. I also saw that I might be able to make the crucifixes with the clay, by using one that I have to make a mold and cast future pieces. Since some of those run up to $5 each (depending on size), it might… Read more »
Shannon – My wife actually does normally drive to Memphis. About 8 1/2-9 hour drive. Last year she did fly (American, I think) and it was much more enjoyable, even though the return flight had issues and she sat in the Memphis airport most of the day. Problem with flying is she has to rent a car if she is… Read more »
MHarper’s fix might have to begin with Best Buy. They can fix it and if not she is right thee to buy another.
If Mharper has a. hardware problem one would need to be sitting right in front of the computer. I have done my share of phone fixes but the problems required internet. LOADED QUESTION. What is the computer not doing.
I have the address and number. So does Tedtam.
The only way anyone can give Harper assistance with her computer problems is on the phone. Since it’s a hardware problem, she has no internet access and no email, apparently. The only people who have her number are Tedtam and Shannon.
Somebody needs to call Harper and get her damned address on the record. She has nobody else in her life but the 80 something year old guy next door who just got married and probably has had a heart attack trying to relive the romantic manhood of his twenties.
This is a fun video, especially the Biden impressions:
https://twitter.com/JesseBWatters/status/1780053497217785946
Good grief. I forgot I have Harper’s number, too.
I just remembered I have MHarper’s phone number – she’s okay, but is having hardware problems and can’t post. She is alive and kicking, so we can take the warning flags down. She did ask that if anyone can help, she’d appreciate some computer assistance.
Checking in and out fast because today was filled with dentist appointments for both of us and afterwards having a late lunch and a couple of errands kept us busy until late afternoon. We are recovering from the day, and giving much attention to Purrscilla Kitty who was in charge of the house most of the day. She did have… Read more »
At least it isn’t another insulting Big Pharma commercial, but there’s a new Bunion Surgery commercial that is very close to being as annoying as the Dancing Chubby Chick Ozempic commercial.
Fair Warning.
I probably should ask GJT’s wife about flying on that type of regional jet.
Surely she and her girlfriend(s) don’t actually drive the ten hours to Memphis every year to light a candle for Elvis?
All hell is about to break loose:
Indiana National Guard member reportedly shot at migrant stabbing others
Hey Super Dave
Have you ever flown on a Canadian Bomdardier 900 regional jet?
Thanks, Squawk. Melencamp has always been something of an enigma. I’ve always had great respect for his songwriting abilities. And he’s always tread his own path without regard to the opinions of others. We probably would never see eye to eye on politics but I’d still like to spend an evening eating a fine dinner and drinking good wine with… Read more »
Everything I’ve been involved in throughout my life has involved trucks and trailers, 18 wheelers to one-ton pickups/gooseneck rigs and even a small fleet of box trucks. Some of the happiest times of my life were riding the highways alone in the middle of the night somewhere in Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Tennessee or Oklahoma listening to my favorite music… Read more »
Here Shannon
John Mellencamp hits BACK after shock viral video showed him launch expletive-laden tirade at hecklers – before storming off stage: ‘I expect etiquette!’
I never found the original Mellencamp story.
I became a trucker because I found out that I do not play well with others. Here is why I do not play well with others. Everyone is allowed to act stupid once in a while, but too many people really abuse the privilege. – SQK Heh. My late brother-in-law said the same thing when he returned from serving in… Read more »
CORRECTION: The story I linked to 10:59 AM and Tedtam linked to at 12:33 PM about the Mexican NGO urging illegal aliens to vote for Biden appears to be FAKE. There are only a few bona fide journalists out there and Bill Melugin is one of them. Bill Melugin of Fox News has done more deep reporting on the border… Read more »
Update on the Mellencamp story: he was not discussing politics, but was talking about his grandmother when someone essentially told him to shut up and sing. That’s why he walked off the stage.
I wonder if Clean Freak would work on the glass door of my small oven? I let it go too long and can’t find anything that works, so far.
I can’t use anything abrasive.
Israel and Iran have been going at it in the shadows for years. Israel has many ways to respond should they decided to do so.
Israel signals they will retaliate against the Iranians after they figure out how to do it without escalating to a regional war. My response: Pray tell me how Israel can do that? Iran would have to not respond. Iran’s stated reason for this round of missiles was in retaliation for the bombing of that “embassy” (note quotation marks) which was… Read more »
“My faith informs everything I do.” Said by the phony preacher. The phony fisa approving, without a warrant, speaker of the house, phony preacher is set to throw the game again. I never knew that his faith informed him to backstab, lie, cheat, and let the invasion of the country continue and with all the destruction it brings. drugs, human trafficking,… Read more »
Why the Self-Cleaning Oven Cycle Will Destroy Your Range We recently had the service guy come and install new high-temp burner on the stovetop. I had ordered the part, but I had a problem uninstalling the burner. It turned out too much heat had warped it. Anyway, he told us to never use the self-cleaning setting on the oven. The… Read more »
I’m reading the C&C roundup, and there’s so much “yep, yep, I know” and “good news!” in it: Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! Your roundup today includes: Trump trial updates; Ukraine feels unpopular since Israel is getting all the attention; story teasing robots shows new, more serious problems for Ukraine and … Nazis!; national traffic shutdown infrastructure attack fails in… Read more »
This is wrong on so many levels: American NGO encouraging illegals to vote for Biden: An advocacy group based in Northeastern Mexico that lobbies U.S. lawmakers has distributed and posted flyers encouraging illegal immigrants to vote for President Joe Biden in the 2024 election, according to The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project.Translated from Spanish, the Oversight Project notes, the flyers posted by… Read more »
Finished making/praying my rosary, then finished cleaning my oven. I ran the self-cleaning cycle yesterday, but the racks have always been a PITA to clean. My Midwest Magic Cleaning guy uses a product called “Clean Freak” so I decided to give it a try. It’s magic! I was able to get my racks clean with a little elbow grease and… Read more »
Now I know why Liberals walk around free of prosecution.
Stupidity isn’t a crime
San Fran Nan’s incubator had tinted glass.
Politicians should really come with a warning label.
Liberals are the reason this country has to put directions on shampoo bottles.
I became a trucker because I found out that I do not play well with others. Here is why I do not play well with others.
Everyone is allowed to act stupid once in a while, but too many people really abuse the privilege.
Mexican NGO is openly involved in human trafficking and illegally interfering with American elections. They don’t even hide it. Welcome Migrants!The Resource Center is a complex of 6 offices that is home to HIAS, which provides legal assistance and assistance in obtaining formal documents for job search and integration into the city of Matamoros while they wait to access the… Read more »
From Not the Bee: These two stories were published on the same day a few weeks ago NBC NEWS / March 27, 2024Melting polar ice is slowing the Earth’s rotation, with possible consequences for timekeepingA new study found that ice loss caused by climate change is redistributing mass on the Earth enough to alter its spin. but wait, stop the… Read more »
Last weekend, 10 people were shot and one little girl was murdered in Chicago. Concurrently, Iran fired hundreds of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles at Israel. One little Bedouin girl was injured by shrapnel. It has been over 3 months since the mayor and city council of Chicago called for an immediate cease fire in Gaza and 126 people have… Read more »
Oops! 😀
My @ 8:43 AM “Awaiting Approval” I know, I used 2 links. 😉
Remember Boys N Girls don’t try this at home. As I mentioned earlier I was mowing the place yesterday and when I was almost finished (6 hours) my big zero turn mower decided it was just too tired to go on. The spring on the engine to transmission idler pulley broke and it threw the belt so it wasn’t going… Read more »
Artificial Intelligence and the use of algorithms in unseen ways is a hot media topic now, but we’ve been on the case for a long time, including almost a year ago how ‘Diversity in Recruiting’ at LinkedIn Implements Feature Allowing Recruiters to Find People by Their Demographics.You may remember our online event in July 2023, regarding Discrimination By Algorithm – the “ultimate… Read more »
It’s really not difficult to have peace and order in the Public Square. They do it in Florida with decisiveness. This is from NPR after the Florida law was passed: Florida experienced little of the violence seen elsewhere in the country last summer following Floyd’s death. But Gov. Ron DeSantis said tougher laws were needed to make sure Florida doesn’t… Read more »
At Instapundit:
There must be some conclusion we can draw from this…
The Left’s highway to hell is paved with all their “good intentions.” People are going to get shot and killed over the stupidity of Democratic politicians. Real estate mogul Shawn Meaike is concerned how hard-working, well-intentioned Americans will handle squatting issues as they grow more and more desperate.“People are going to start taking matters into their own hands. That’s what we do… Read more »