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		_wwz4 on March 7, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: High protein diet not as bad for you as smoking It's not interesting. It's garbage. There's too much noise in their input data to derive any meaning whatsoever. Garbage in, garbage out.

bunderbunder on March 7, 2014 [–]

Show me on the doll where the science touched you.

_wwz4 on March 9, 2014 | [–]

That's where you're confused. What they're doing isn't "science". They make no predictions and perform no experiments.

They're simply using statistics to analyze data. Their data is bad. That means that their results are meaningless.

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