What a load of shit

FinsburyParkCarrots
FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
edited August 2008 in A Moving Train
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7574938.stm
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    aah jesus... im dead already. :cool:
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • OutOfBreath
    OutOfBreath Posts: 1,804
    Well, they start off admitting that the questionnaire were done after the women had been diagnozed with cancer... In other words, they haven't found anything, other than that women with cancer may not have as positive an outlook on life as their cancer-less sisters. I mean, who'd have known? :rolleyes:

    I guess they would have felt silly having wasted all that time and resources on a meaningless result, so they went ahead and published it anyway.

    I am talking as a person who has statistics for a job, and this is really nothing. Flawed research if the goal was to determine whether attitude can affect later disease.

    Peace
    Dan
    "YOU [humans] NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?" - Death

    "Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." - Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965
  • Julien
    Julien Posts: 2,457
    why "load of shit" ?
    I'm a scientst and I usually try to find a logical answer to everything. But for the cancer, it seems possible that the psychology has much to do...
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Julien wrote:
    why "load of shit" ?
    I'm a scientst and I usually try to find a logical answer to everything. But for the cancer, it seems possible that the psychology has much to do...


    I'm not here to tell you why I think it's a load of shit. I'm here to get you posting. :D
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    stress opens your body to a host of illnesses...
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    i'm torn between my desire to be happy, and my hatred of happy people.
  • Kann
    Kann Posts: 1,146
    Julien wrote:
    why "load of shit" ?
    I'm a scientst and I usually try to find a logical answer to everything. But for the cancer, it seems possible that the psychology has much to do...
    It's actually pretty logical. Cancerous cells can be destroyed by your immune system, when you're happy some hormones are produced in higher quantities than when your meh or stressed. These hormones tend to stimulate your immune system and hence protect you from cancer.
    i'm torn between my desire to be happy, and my hatred of happy people.
    haha, that must be a hard situation :)
  • CorporateWhore
    CorporateWhore Posts: 1,890
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7574938.stm

    "Israeli researchers"...

    Surely you don't trust them lyin' Jews?!
    All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal.
    -Enoch Powell
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    you're right fins.....horseshit
  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    placebo studies suggest otherwise but I think it's bollocks. There'll be something different next week

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