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Comment Re:yet it still makes sense (Score 1) 528

That's not how the scientific process works.

A theory's validity is supported and or challenged by solid repeatable experiments. To say that a flawed study is valid because it supports established theory is completely backwards.

A poorly designed study based on skewed sampling is flawed at best and propaganda fodder for worst.

Comment Re:Hope you enjoy being broke (Score 1) 552

I would rather not go to a performance with my phone locked up - even if I never took the phone out once. It's way too much an invasion of piracy.

Fixed that for you.

None of your information, private or otherwise, is being taken. It's preventing you from taking something from the show, either in the form of the artist's performance or your fellow attendee's ability to enjoy it.

Comment Re:I'm I the only one (Score 1) 256

And then they came out with Tide Pods, breaking them into smaller, transportable, unmarked (so they're easily...laundered) denominations. Who wouldn't love to control the supply of a universally demanded trade-able product with a stable intrinsic value?

I wonder when the Federal Reserve is going to bust up Proctor and Gamble for trying to nose in on their racket.

The Almighty Buck

Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets 663

An anonymous reader writes: The NY Times reports that Coca-Cola is teaming up with influential scientists to support research into fighting obesity through other means than improving diet. They've provided funding to a new nonprofit called the Global Energy Balance Network. Its president said, "Most of the focus in the popular media and in the scientific press is, 'Oh they're eating too much, eating too much, eating too much' — blaming fast food, blaming sugary drinks and so on. And there's really virtually no compelling evidence that that, in fact, is the cause." Health experts say it's an attempt by Coca-cola to deflect criticism of the sugary drinks that are the lifeblood of its business. "This clash over the science of obesity comes in a period of rising efforts to tax sugary drinks, remove them from schools and stop companies from marketing them to children. In the last two decades, consumption of full-calorie sodas by the average American has dropped by 25 percent."

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