Warning to all dog owners!

Alex · 10-01-2006, 02:42 PM

Would the treatment be administered by a vet? I have no idea, but there is no description of what it would be.

And without absolute and relative risk information I have no idea how much I should panic if I just have a strong suspicion that the dog ate some of this sweetener. What are the symptoms the dog might show if it has eaten some and I don't know it?

There is no new informational content in the article (the ASPCA has warned about consumption of this sweetener for quite a while). It is the wire service equivelant of the nightly news teaser "Can your recliner kill you? Film at 11:00."

As I said, this could be serious, just the reporting offers nothing to allow one to make such evaluations. As usual, science reporting (and more specifically, reporting on published research) sucks and plays a huge part in the inability by large segments of the population to make reasonable risk evaluations.

10-01-2006, 02:42 PM	#4
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Would the treatment be administered by a vet? I have no idea, but there is no description of what it would be. And without absolute and relative risk information I have no idea how much I should panic if I just have a strong suspicion that the dog ate some of this sweetener. What are the symptoms the dog might show if it has eaten some and I don't know it? There is no new informational content in the article (the ASPCA has warned about consumption of this sweetener for quite a while). It is the wire service equivelant of the nightly news teaser "Can your recliner kill you? Film at 11:00." As I said, this could be serious, just the reporting offers nothing to allow one to make such evaluations. As usual, science reporting (and more specifically, reporting on published research) sucks and plays a huge part in the inability by large segments of the population to make reasonable risk evaluations.
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