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Chocolate And Cholesterol - At Some Point It's Okay To Call B.S.

Apr 21 2008 | comment(s)

John Erdman, a University of Illinois professor of food science and human nutrition who also chairs the Mars, Inc. Scientific Advisory Council and has received millions in funding from Mars, Inc., recognizes that taking money from a candy bar company (Mars Inc.) to do a study of their (Mars Inc.) candy bar proving it is healthy will have skeptics.

Not here. Hey, if Philip-Morris wants to highlight a study saying cigarettes cure cancer or Exxon-Mobil needs to promote a study saying automobile carbon monoxide improves asthma, we won't ridicule them just because of the funding. We'll ridicule them because of the methodology.

“Eating two CocoaVia dark chocolate bars a day not only lowered cholesterol, it had the unexpected effect of also lowering systolic blood pressure,” said Erdman on the results of a peer-reviewed study in The Journal of Nutrition.

Except the participants were also put on the American Heart Association’s “Eating Plan for Healthy Americans” (the Step 1 diet) two weeks before the study started.

A Big Week In Science 2.0

Apr 19 2008 | comment(s)

We've had a terrific number of interesting things happen this week and I'll send out some email to all of the members but I will also tackle some of it here on the blog so new visitors can catch up. First, we finished the video integration. We teamed up with a company called Magnify.net, which is the kind of company that would be worth a billion dollars right now if YouTube hadn't come out first. We used magnify to power the video section because it allows us the flexibility to do a number of things: 1. There is a keyword search in there to allow us to automatically find videos from any number of video sites, like YouTube, Revver, etc.

John A. Wheeler, Who Coined the Term ‘Black Hole,’ Died Today, April 13, 2008

Apr 14 2008 | comment(s)

Well, what can you say? He went toe-to-toe with Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr and came up with the nomenclature 'black hole.' It had to be an interesting time. Physics still had worlds to conquer and he helped do it. There are some who decry the Manhattan Project, for example, because it's impossible to clarify how many lives were saved using an atomic bombs but we have an idea how many were killed. Term "black hole" - 1967.

Ted Turner Continues His Rapid Descent Into Senility

Apr 04 2008 | comment(s)

If we're going to make fun of people who think the earth is 6000 years old or that cavemen frolicked with dinosaurs we should also make fun of berserk "environmentalists" who say blatantly stupid things. Ted Turner is an idiot. Why anyone can read anything he says and not cringe if he's on their side is beyond me. Yes, I understand he has made money and that is intellectual validation enough for some people but saying global warming is going to make us all cannibals is the kind of nonsensical silliness we need to avoid if we're going to get things done. Pollution is a serious problem no matter what form it takes.

Masai Warriors Understand England Better Than The English Do

Apr 03 2008 | comment(s)

First, I have a disclosure: I had no idea where Masai was before I googled it. It turns out I have never heard of it because it's not a place, it's a tribe. In Kenya and Tanzania. They don't read us, I assume. Instead they herd cattle in small groups, ten or so huts per settlement. In the old days, their ascension into manhood required killing a lion. With a spear. I have a .308 rifle and I don't want to be within 200 yards of a lion so I respect that they feel so confident in their hand-to-hand fighting they'll take a chance on dying just to prove they can herd cattle with the other men in their village. Kenya doesn't allow that any more (well, officially.

Scientificblogging.com Goes On Acquisition Trail, Buys Scienceblogs.com

Apr 01 2008 | comment(s)

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, April 1 /PRNewswire/ - Science 2.0/Web 2.0/Internet Media Darling/Start-Up Scientific Blogging announced today that it has agreed to acquire Scienceblogs.com, a unit of Seed Media, LLC, New York, New York.