Exactly. A good example of this would be this article which really challenges conventional wisdom.

The truth is very little is known in the diet industry. The evidence supporting many claims are very weak and many so-called experts spewing out the latest diet gospel often have an agenda tied to some food company. If you google "coffee is good for you" you'll finds lots of well written articles indicating just that. Google "coffee is bad for you" and you'll get the same result. In a slightly different context, this reminds me of what the physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman said about what it means to really know something. When it comes to food not much is really known yet it's hard for many to see that given the confidence levels of the various "experts". This is why if Victor would have claimed, "No one really knows if a vegetarian diet is healthier", it would have been infinitely harder to attack. Of course, the very fact that that claim is so hard to attack points to why Victor's actual claim is so easy to undermine.

Let's face it. Everyone knows I was secretly hoping to run into a "needy" 14 year old girl.

that's why it's 'nearly' selfless

As you noticed I edited your original post to fit my style

Stalker!

Ahh, stop your yapping bigSTALKER41. Grr, gr...

+1 on the bolded part.

Here's the clip I was talking about, the whole thing is excellent. The Q & A starts at the 40 minute mark.

http://fora.tv/2007/05/10/Christophe...tics_and_Prose

im hardly a stalker, wes' sister and i are friends



also, please save some shred of dignity and gtfo

ban for racism

i didn't say asian women have no boobs, i just using a saying from pop culture in picture form

Watched the whole thing. Excellent. If I showed my girlfriend that, it would melt her brain.

I just wanted to express my strong support for pictures as a medium for expression and communication. As thorleif's recent edit to the cute cat pic aptly demonstrates, if something can be said in pic form just as well as in words, then by god post the pic instead! This should be an internet dictum that everyone happily follows.

it's not racist, i hate everyone equally

as the old saying goes, a picture tells a thousand words

And yet you kept on yapping that I was the one who was so full of hatred. Actually it is you who are so depressed-fully hating EVERYBODY! WTF.

Ha! What in your mind should be and what is sometimes aren't always the same things. A part of growing up is to come to terms with this

On this note, I will quote the infinitely wise words of a fellow 2+2er, who's a noted polymath with a PhD in psychology.

i'll make a list, it's either a list of things i've done, or a list of things you've done


1. filed a police report on me because on the internets I told you to go die in a fire

2. tried to get my teaching license suspended by contacting whatever governing body there is in Michigan

3. told wes to tell someone to watch out cause they are going to get it



and i'm the stalker full of hate

i'm very convinced the china study stuff is ridiculous.

you'll have to register at this forum, but http://forums.lylemcdonald.com/showthread.php?t=5816

standard

He has a PhD? Back when I first started playing I used to post on another poker forum that he frequented. I like that quote a lot btw.

from the grave

Good find Miles. This illustrates why I think it's best not to believe any diet claim. Diet/nutrition is a science still in it's infancy, in a similar vein as astrology and alchemy long ago, populated with outright charlatans and well meaning but terribly wrong "experts". This is why I feel safe saying there is no good reason to believe that a vegetarian/vegan diet is somehow harmful or not as good as a diet including meat.

Of course, we also don't have good reasons to assume that a vegetarian diet is better than a diet including meat. What we do know is there are good ethical, environmental, and humanitarian reasons for not eating meat.

milesdyson = jesus imo

i just had pizza

it had bacon AND chicken

mmmmmmm

Yep, iirc there was a thread done in the SMP forum a couple years ago where people listed their backgrounds and I think that's where I first found out. He's one smart Swede.