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Originally Posted by Betty
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As a follow up, completely independent of this thread ran into someone else talkign about this and ended up at a blog where the lead researcher on this paper (Kimber Stanhope)
posted criticism of the
Times story referenced in the Consumerist piece, saying that essentially every sentence contains a fundamental inaccuracy in paraphrasing the study.
This is why, except for a few trusted science journalists I pretty much assume any science story in the newspaper is worthless.