----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 03:41 Subject: Re: [biofuel] FW: Earth Can't Meet Human Demand for Resources, Says Study
> I'm not sure what you mean about the data. I think these guys know > well how to handle data. They were conservative, leaving out factors > where the data was insufficient. So the real picture is likely to be > rather worse. > Not to long ago, everyone knew that salt was bad for the heart. Why? Because a prominet and respected heart doctor published what seamed to be good data. The theory goes, the salt caused the body to retain water in the blood stream, raising the blood presher, and causing the heart to work, harder, causing a heart attack. Now it sounds good. It came from a from a respected person in the medical community. Everyone took it as gospel. One problem he never tested his theory. Not one study. Yet for several years, what was hundreds of thousands of americans told? Then Americans were told that cholesterol was bad and that we were to avoid it. A few years later we find out that that was only partly true, the HDL was bad, but the LDL was not. Again, a few years later, we find out the the body requires a certian amount of HDL or it makes its own. This is why I'm taking this study with a grain of salt (no pun intended). Because they did not generate the data themselfs, but, obtained the information from other sources. If the information from the other sources, is incompleat or tainted (not unheard of), then the whole model is skewed. > You did this? > How big is YOUR Ecological Footprint! - Earth Day Footprint Quiz > http://www.earthday.net/footprint/index.asp > > That's eco-footprinting at its most simplistic level. It's just a > questionnaire for the average household, there's a lot more to it > than that. That's hardly what the researchers applied to the global > population and world resources over the last 40 years. > That is fine, but, then they should be prepared to have the study judged by what sites they linked to. Now on the off chance that the study is skewed, and then another group used the information from that study as part of another study? Will it not cause the other study to be skewed? This is why indepenent review of information is so important. If they just used the information from the other studys, without independent review ( of all factors involved ), then the study is no better off than a high school science fair. I don't know that the information has not been reviewed properly, but, I don't know that it has either, that is my concern. Greg H. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Free $5 Love Reading Risk Free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/3PCXaC/PfREAA/Ey.GAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
