stefd's comments

On: Red meat and processed food 'not back on the menu' according to new review

[stefd]

This is assuming this 0.62% actually shows a TRUE effect.

If it is noise/invalid/a mistake, it means nothing; the actual effect might actually be a DECREASE of CVD as far as we know.

And it is important to also look at all cause mortality; such studies have often shown a decrease in CVD but the same final number of deaths...

On: Red meat and processed food 'not back on the menu' according to new review

[stefd]

> They use statistical methods to eliminate the confounding variables.

Some of those anyway. You can only account for confounders that you know about a priori.

And given they used Food Frequency Questionnaires, it's mostly wasted efforts imho.

On: Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near the White House

[stefd]

Wondering if this might explain similar spying around the Canadian parliament...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-csis-cell-surveillance...