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- From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
- Message-ID: <1993Jan01.003259.4122@omen.UUCP>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 00:32:59 GMT
- References: <17878@pitt.UUCP> <1992Dec23.043007.5590@omen.UUCP> <17937@pitt.UUCP>
- Organization: Omen Technology INC, Portland Rain Forest
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- In article <17937@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec23.043007.5590@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
- >>
- >>Well then, what was your BMI at 5, 10 and 15?
- >>
- >Well, I told you I was 210 at age 15 and 5'11" high. Can you figure
- >it out from that? I don't know how fat I was at 5 or 10. By age
- >10 I was being teased, however.
- >
- >>Gordon, if you knew what "feeding your face meant" why did you
- >>equate not "feeding your face" with terminal starvation when you
- >>knew better?
- >>
- >
- >I wanted to get a rise out of you.
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >I told you that you were far too rude to expect to get a reply
- >from Rena. She undoubtedly considered you a crank.
-
- If one were using statistical manipulations to generate good
- experimental results out of nothing, it would be logical to
- dismiss questioners as "cranks", "anti-dieters", or "feminists".
-
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