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Loaf Of Bread 'As Salty As Seawater'
GillE:
The moral of the story is... don't be uncritical of scientific reports. There appear to be a lot of scientists who live in academia and are strangers to reality. They would have us live like hydroponically grown vegetables because they can control every facet of our lives to meet with what they perceive to be our best interests.
I am not a hydroponic vegetable - I am a free-range mammal!
Rik:
With a sharp chisel. ;)
sam:
but was that a scientific report? I wouldn't categorise them as academics.
GillE:
Most people would regard it as a scientific report. A professor and a doctor have both given their opinions and they are highly qualified scientists. Moreover, it has been reported in a broadsheet newspaper by a science correspondent who it must be presumed has viewed the report from a critical standpoint before accepting it. The fact that there has been no peer-reviewed paper is neither here nor there; don't forget, the general public is constantly being told to trust scientists over matters such as global warming on the strength of far less evidence being presented.
If you want to know why the public is increasingly wary of scientific pronouncements, here's an example why.
sam:
Science reporting is awful. Unless I can read the peer reviewed paper or they actually quote or properly reference then I don't think its worth attention.
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