Comments on: Slime-Bag Dinosaur: What Science Is, What It Isn’t http://saij.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/slime-bag-dinosaur-what-science-is-what-it-isnt/ Evolutionary Game Theory and the Biology of Human Interaction Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:10:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Noumenon http://saij.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/slime-bag-dinosaur-what-science-is-what-it-isnt/#comment-3843 Noumenon Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:34:53 +0000 http://saij.wordpress.com/?p=698#comment-3843 <i>This happened with eggs. At first a number of studies noticed that eggs had a lot of fat and cholesterol. Bad. So the media flips out! Never eat eggs. Ever. The heavens above will rain lava upon you!</i> I'm not sure it actually happened this way. The way Robin Hanson <a href="http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/07/gary-taubes-goo.html" rel="nofollow">describes</a> Gary Taubes' book <I>Good Calories, Bad Calories</i>, the actual researchers brought an awful lot of bias to the subject. The problem may have been in the science practice first, the science reporting second. This happened with eggs. At first a number of studies noticed that eggs had a lot of fat and cholesterol. Bad. So the media flips out! Never eat eggs. Ever. The heavens above will rain lava upon you!

I’m not sure it actually happened this way. The way Robin Hanson describes Gary Taubes’ book Good Calories, Bad Calories, the actual researchers brought an awful lot of bias to the subject. The problem may have been in the science practice first, the science reporting second.

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