How True!

I did some research as a student, many years ago, and remember how the smallest bit of information from a study could be taken out of context and blown up totally out of proportion. Facts are meaningless without the complete study and background information. 

Gretchen,

Sad but True. Unfotunately this happening across all fields. The scientific community has especially lost credibility with every passing day they come up with one thing is good and sometime later the same thing is bad.

Thanks

Venkat

You folks at Health Central and your thoughtful readers who comment give the internet a good name. Google search is your friend (as well as other ways to find related material). We curious folks who want to know more can now indulge our curiosity within seconds of seeing an unexpected claim anywhere. Even if only a small fraction of us check it out, responsible bloggers can amplify their voices when it matters.

Thank you for being a part of the solution to the problem you mention.

Dick

ps See the wave.google.com for a new way to carry on a discussion like this. I was particularly impressed that it can already suggest to inadequate spellers the right "they're" to replace their "there" and the right "too" or "two" or even "tu" to replace their "to". Could such a mechanism bring the subjunctive back into English?

indeed the internet is double-edged- the democratization of information is a crucial freedom, but the loss of peer review dilutes the information in quite troublesome ways