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- From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.105556.8340@omen.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 10:55:56 GMT
- Article-I.D.: omen.1992Dec23.105556.8340
- References: <17878@pitt.UUCP> <1992Dec23.043007.5590@omen.UUCP> <1992Dec23.054435.19318@spdcc.com>
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- In article <1992Dec23.054435.19318@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec23.043007.5590@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
- >>Gordon, thanks for reminding me about Rena. We're still waiting
- >>for her answers to the legitimate questions already before her.
- >>The longer she ignores my communications the more concerned I
- >>become that she is more interested in protecting a diet based
- >>research establishment than progress toward effective obesity
- >>treatment.
- >
- >Dyer's Law strikes again.
- >
- >Chuck, Rena doesn't participate on sci.med nor is she on the net, so
- >she isn't under even the most informal obligation to give you the time
- >of day, let alone "give you her answers to your legitimate questions."
- >Sheesh. Does it even cross your mind that if you come off as a
- >blithering crank here on the net, that the figure you cut out in the
- >real world when you send out "Adiposity 101" to obesity researchers
- >might not be very collegial?
-
- Haven't we been here before? When my critics run out of
- arguments they resort to ad hominem ("blistering crank")
- attacks. Can't they stick to the subject already?
-
- >
- >>Gordon's other comments clarify the need to add some more basic
- >>information about current obesity research in Adiposity 101,
- >>rather than just mentioning it with references to standard works.
- >
- >You mean "the obesity research which tells me what I want to hear."
-
- No. I mean items in Adiposity 101 such as the one-liner:
- "Adipocyte Hyperplasia: Excessive number of fat cells, as much
- as ten times normal.", without adequately explaining the
- significance of fat cell number.
-
- Steve, you (and others) seem convinced I am excluding relevant,
- high quality obesity research from Adiposity 101 that doesn't
- "tell me what I want to hear". Could you be specific? Please
- discuss specific papers, we've had enough vague generalizations.
-
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