posted on May, 25 2011 @ 04:59 PM
reply to post by Golithion
Originally posted by Golithion
reply to post by madnessinmysoul
No. I'm just pissed off at people who want to downplay the importance of understanding the world around us.
So how much salt do you intake in a day? How much coffee should I drink in a day? How much caffeine is bad for you oh wait is it good for you? How
about chocolate? How about sugar is that bad for you oh wait it's good for you in certain amounts?
Um...a string of nonsense questions relating to diet and nutrition, a field of study that's actually the subject of quite a bit of research....I don't
Why do people eat?
...seriously? That's a very easy question: energy and mass
. We cannot build or repair our bodies without external mass and we can't run them
without external energy.
Give me a break science is not based on studies like this,
You're right, science is based on the scientific method. Science happens to contain studies like this.
you want to find out why brain's shrink during Alzheimer and why there are seizures go for it.
Crazy thing about science, it's there to investigate everything
You tell me how they determined that a living human being's brain shrunk because of a belief?
Maybe you could try reading the link provided in the OP or maybe even, and I know this is an incredibly extreme idea, the study itself! You know, the
thing that they actually publish for public viewing! And it's in an open-access journal too...
Edit to add this little tid bit from the article itself, There may be more factors responsible for the correlation," she said of the study published
on March 30 in "PLoS One," a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication."
That alone say's it all.
Um...PLoS One is fairly rigorous. The only difference it has to traditional print journals is that it has a much wider range of topics that are
And you do realize that this is a preliminary study, right? You don't seem to understand how science works. They published this so that either they or
someone else can continue the research to revisit these findings and see if there is a causation or if it's merely a correlation.
You do realize that peer-reviewed publications (and this one goes through two stages) have fairly high standards for what they accept,
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