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- From: phz@cadence.com (Pete Zakel)
- Subject: Re: Walter Jacobsen's a Fool; WOD reporting on Chicago's CBS News.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.212414.29846@Cadence.COM>
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- References: <1992Nov12.164948.28790@uunet!tellab5!odgate> <1992Nov13.181205.15882@marcal.uucp>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:24:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.181205.15882@marcal.uucp> marc@marcal.uucp (Marc Veeneman) writes:
- >dbk@uunet!tellab5!odgate (Dan Keith) writes:
- >
- >>Fact: Saliva is known to be fatal, but only when swallowed in small amounts
- >>over a long period of time.
- >
- >What's your source for this, Dan?
-
- It's well known -- many studies have replicated it. So far, every person who
- is known to swallow small amounts of saliva has died within 120 years.
-
- B^)
-
- >>Fact: Mother's milk is a gateway drug. Studies have shown that a large
- >>percentage of drug addicts initially started with it.
- >
- >What study was this? Who funded it? Where was it published?
-
- Again, this is old -- a study from the sixties or seventies.
-
- What Dan is illustrating is that (please repeat after me):
-
- Correlation does not equal causation!
-
- As far as "gateway drugs" go, for *real* drugs -- ALCOHOL is the most common
- gateway drug. Most drug users' first drug was alcohol. And there are still
- far more users of alcohol in the US than any other drug.
-
- -Pete Zakel
- (phz@cadence.com or ..!uunet!cadence!phz)
-
- You will be surprised by a loud noise.
-