Barad, Here are responses to your requests:
--- On Tue, 2/22/11, U. G. Barad <[email protected]> wrote: > > Define Conspiracy theories and also let me know which references you >believe > in i.e. which according to you are honest, trustworthy medical >literatures? > A conspiracy theory is a belief that two or more persons/groups are secretly colluding with each other to perpetrate a fraud or commit a crime. I don't blindly believe in any reference. I decide whether I should trust a result or not by making sure: 1) that it is published as a peer-reviewed research article in a reputed scientific journal; 2) that the study is well conducted using state of the art methods and techniques, and proper sample sizes and statistical tests; and 3) that there are other similarly peer-reviewed and properly conducted studies that independently reproduce the results. References to all peer-reviewed medically relevant scientific articles published in scientific journals can be easily located today in the Medline or PubMed databases of the U. S. National Library of Medicine. To access the full text of these articles one has to have online subscriptions to these journals. In some cases the articles are freely available, especially those published in the newly established open access journals. > > And also let me know which journals you believe in! > Again, I don't believe. I trust based on objective evidence. Some examples of highly respected scientific journals that publish high quality peer-reviewed articles are Nature, Science, New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Cell, Neuron, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and IEEE Transactions. > > Before that how about starting our discussion on basic chemistry on fats >and > oils! > This would be a great discussion to have on Goanet. Cheers, Santosh
