Monday, February 22, 2010

Hijacking Science to Save Us From Ourselves

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1884864,00.html

This a good example of hijacked science.

The facts - people with high blood pressure benefit from reductions in salt intake.  If you don't have HBP, there's no evidence to show a BP benefit from reduced salt intake nor an increase in BP from eating too much salt.

These public health models are nice, but they can only make sense as a basis for experimentation.  To actually use them as a basis to restrict consumer choices or industry offerings would be madness.  Of course, that would not stop the 'true believers' from taking that course ...

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