http://scienceblog.com/55899/artifi...ent-linked-to-key-alzheimers-disease-process/
Be careful ladies and gentlemen, your beer may give you alzheimers.
Be careful ladies and gentlemen, your beer may give you alzheimers.
MaltnHops said:I really doubt that it's going to affect us as much the...wait, what was I talking about, and who the hell are you?
Correlation != Causation
Correlation != Causation
Uh huh. And I'll bet the Journal's editors and the researchers never thought of that. This is one of the most frequently employed glib dismissals of scientific work by the public. Here's the important language: "So they tested whether DA also could clump those proteins. DA did increase the level of beta-amyloid clumping." So they went beyond simply observing a correlation.
As a Computer Science major I know nothing of science. I do know logic. This is all based upon the theory that Aβ leads to Alzheimer's. Okay, DA causes Aβ clumpling. Is there a causal relationship between Aβ and the development of Alzheimer's?
As a Computer Science major I know nothing of science. I do know logic. This is all based upon the theory that Aβ leads to Alzheimer's. Okay, DA causes Aβ clumpling. Is there a causal relationship between Aβ and the development of Alzheimer's?
Heh, I was going to post the same article and headline. For anyone who might be concerned, the miniscule amounts of diacetyl in that English bitter that you screwed up won't give you Alzheimer's. This is more directed at factory workers who are inhaling grams of the stuff (and therefore sending it directly into their bloodstream and brain) on a daily basis.
Pilgarlic said:"Correlation does not imply causation" suggests a fundamental suspicion of science in general.
I don't have a fundamental suspicion of science, but I do have a suspicion of scientists. You know, those guys who get funding depending on whether they can prove their theory or not. That sort of motivation doesn't seem to produce unbiased results.
Sounds suspiciously like the "correlation" between vaccines and autism. Hopefully the actual article is better written than the blog entry.
Except there never really WAS any correlation, let alone causation (thank goodness).
That study was pretty much 100% bull****, and now we've got gawdamn hippy kids with practically NO vaccinations running around everywhere like little plague-bearers for people with compromised immune systems.
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