Article

2004-08-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Huge rise in brain diseases~~, Islam blamed~~

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Zenster 2004-08-15 2:53:56 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Do you suppose there might be some connection between an increase in diseases of the aged with the fact that across the planet more people are living long enough to enjoy them?

Posted by trailing wife 2004-08-15 6:56:04 AM|| 2004-08-15 6:56:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Might account for the apparent increase in BMB (Barking Moonbat) Syndrome.....

Posted by Mercutio 2004-08-15 12:38:34 PM|| 2004-08-15 12:38:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Do you suppose there might be some connection between an increase in diseases of the aged with the fact that across the planet more people are living long enough to enjoy them?

A more likely explanation is that as better tests are devised and symptomologies are more clearly distinguished, the accuracy of reporting has increased. Many diagnoses of these individual diseases were lumped together previously.

None of this diminishes the threat of environmental toxins. The food issue is one of my pet peeves. All the whining about preservatives that you hear of these days is actually quite ironic. If you examine a recipe for corned beef from 100 years ago, it will contain somewhere from 10-100 times the amount of saltpeter used for curing that a modern preparation might use. As progress has been made in hygenic food processing, far less preservatives are now required to assure product quality.

While environmentalists have too often resorted to scare tactics and alarmist publicity, there are still a lot of valid concerns about hormone mimics and endocrine disruptors. I really want to see more detaied information about the Japanese brain disease rate and its link to diet, that one is a truly significant anomaly.

Posted by Zenster 2004-08-15 2:52:08 PM|| 2004-08-15 2:52:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 More agenda peddling courtesy of The Guardian.

From the article:

The report, which Pritchard wrote with colleagues at Southampton University, covered the incidence of brain diseases in the UK, US, Japan, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Spain in 1979-1997. The researchers then compared death rates for the first three years of the study period with the last three, and discovered that dementias - mainly Alzheimer's, but including other forms of senility - more than trebled for men and rose nearly 90 per cent among women in England and Wales. All the other countries were also affected

In other words, this is a statistical study only. They took numbers, did zero actual emprical research, and said it is all linked.

The Guardian saw the report and regurgitated it just the way the writers wanted it to, without any serious questions into the study.

Do not publications ever check these things once a leftist publication like the Guardian publishes them?

I can prove statistically that the very same rise in incidents of cancer/demenia/disease du jour in the UK can be tied to increasing numbers of blow jobs given by young British female journalists. It may not be true but I can damn sure prove it.

Posted by badanov 2004-08-15 3:05:19 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-08-15 3:05:19 PM|| Front Page Top

12:33 Halfass Pete
12:25 Halfass Pete
12:03 Halfass Pete
08:16 JFM
08:16 JFM
22:11 Anonymous6587
14:16 Zhang Fei
07:45 MacNails
07:07 Mike Sylwester
03:40 gromky
02:21 Zenster
01:48 Rafael
01:18 Zhang Fei
01:15 Zenster
00:44 gromky
00:17 Bomb-a-rama
00:16 Classical_Liberal
00:14 Bomb-a-rama
00:09 Bomb-a-rama
00:08 Anonymoose
00:03 Frank G
00:00 Frank G
23:59 Frank G
23:55 Robert Stevens