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- From: marc@marcal.uucp (Marc Veeneman)
- Newsgroups: chi.general,alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs
- Subject: Re: Walter Jacobsen's a Fool; WOD reporting on Chicago's CBS News.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.142524.23070@marcal.uucp>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 14:25:24 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.164948.28790@uunet!tellab5!odgate> <1992Nov13.181205.15882@marcal.uucp> <1992Nov17.212414.29846@Cadence.COM>
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- phz@cadence.com (Pete Zakel) writes:
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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?
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- >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.
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- >B^)
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- >>>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.
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- >What Dan is illustrating is that (please repeat after me):
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- > Correlation does not equal causation!
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- Sorry, Pete. It looks like Dan was lying about those studies.
- Maybe that's one reason drug-legalization advocates have trouble
- convincing the rest of us who salivate, were nursed as infants,
- and drink wine with meals but don't use illegal drugs.
- --
- -- Marc Veeneman
-