Unfortunately, it is hard or impossible to prove a negative, and for every
theory out there, whether crackpot or legitimate, there seems to be some
"research" that proves the theory true. If I believed all the research
out there, I would drive myself crazy trying to avoid all the dangerous
things in this world. Or I would live a short miserable life and die
early of hunger, thirst and utter boredom.
Or, even worse, you might live a long, miserable, and utterly boring life.
My parents went for years drinking decaf coffee because caffeine was bad
for you, then they found out decaf was worse. They went for years
avoiding eggs because they were bad for you, now eggs aren't bad any
more. After seeing so many bad things become ok years later, and so many
government-sanctioned "good" things be found to be bad, I'm not prepared
to take anything at face value, especially if it comes from government,
and second if it comes from "research studies", which can be twisted,
bent, or just plain broken, by anybody with the money to commission them
and a preconceived idea of what the "studies" will prove.
Well, that pretty much skewers all the "researchers". Better tell Brooks
Bradley that he has wasted his time.
Even the most "obvious" facts of modern life, accepted almost universally
by everyone without question, can be based on blatantly bad science or
statistics. Take for example the claim that smoking kills 500,000 people
a year because it causes heart disease, which is the nation's biggest
killer. Is that true? I have no doubt that smoking is bad for people,
but ... is it That bad?
All my aunts and uncles who smoked died horribly of cancer. They also
suffered for a long time before expiring. Dying of "old age" is preferable.
So I avoid smoking and smokers. Am I bored? No. Will I live longer as a
result? I have no idea, but I know I will feel and smell better while I
live. The worst thing about smokers is that they quite literally stink.
To answer that question I looked in some of those Information Please
almanac books that give tons of statistics, including causes of death in
the US by category: heart disease, cancer, accidents, etc. -- 50 some
categories, and sure enough, cardio-vascular disease was right up there
at the top of the list by a mile. But ... something is missing from all
those lists. Look long enough and you might see it too, but it is easy
to miss, because it IS NOT THERE: According to our illustrious
government, nobody dies of old age! What a miracle that is! The
government has cured OLD AGE! Must be, since they claim that nobody dies
from it.
My guess is simply that "old age" is not something doctors are allowed to
enter on a death certificate as a cause of death, so they have to write
something else, and when in doubt, they put down "heart stopped' or some
such thing. But does that make for another death from heart disease?
obviously not.
Doctors put lots of things on death certificates - like, for instance,
patients who died of cancer when what they really died from was chemo
therapy.
So how many of those are there?
To answer that question i sent for a publication by the National Safety
Council, which resides in Chicago, and which is the source, along with
National Department of Health and Human Services (a few years ago) of
almost all the information in the statistical almanac books. NSC sent me
a little booklet that contained, among many other things, a graph of
cardio-vascular death rates vs age. Sure enough, the numbers were very
low right up to the late 60s or early 70s, when they started to ramp up,
reaching a sharp peak around 80, then dropping down again.
Where are all the "heart disease" deaths at other stages of life? Not to
be found in that graph, that's for sure. But then again, the only way to
find that tidbit of information was to buy a little pamphlet for $25 (in
1990), from the National Safety Council, which by the way is an
independent corporation in Chicago, chartered by and overseen by -- US
Congress. Ok, so now we know where the numbers, and the lies, are coming
from for this issue.
Looks like your "research" here proves your point about research.
Don't even get me started on drinking and driving....
Dick
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