Beware Of Governments Bearing Statistics

Research is something that many people find suspicious.  The mass public doesn’t know what makes “good” research and what is just plain manipulation.

Most people know that studying a lot of cases gives a more accurate picture than studying a single case – or just a few cases.  But speaking as a formally trained and professional researcher, let me tell you that – contrary to conventional wisdom — it is really hard to make any sense of any kind of statistics that study a big-lot-much-HUGE number of human people.

A recent USA today report tells us about a long term government study on women’s health.

This is the government – so my antenna immediately started tingling.  Call it my “Spidey-sense.”

After all, these are the people who gave you the infamous Food Pyramid – which is politically derived by food-industry lobbyists rather than calculated with nutritional science.

These are the people who refuse to let you buy Canadian drugs which are much cheaper, saying that they haven’t been tested in the Good-Ole-USA and may be bad for you – when these are the exact same drugs you buy in America, made by the same pharmaceutical companies and monitored by our FDA during their testing.

These are the same people trying to convert the health care of this nation so it is even MORE friendly to the insurance and pharmaceutical industries.

So, call me a cynic.

It is also interesting who is comparing what to what, and who is getting what done, and this is like a megalith. It is not a question of whether goals are met. If someone says they have not been met, then we have more of the kind of stuff that is negative enough to get people to read media.

Sure — more people are getting mammograms.  This has something to do with who has insurance.  But is this a good thing? There are also some studies wondering if the regular exposure is worth the radiation.  People are even working on figuring out what makes someone show up for a mammogram in the first place.

What screams out here is:

1. Women are overweight or obese or something.

2.  Women tend towards type II diabetes and high blood pressure. The above are not women’s issues.  They are issues that are problems for American humans, both male and females. The inductive reasoning, the simple observation of cases, tells us that this is something wrong with the American food supply. This is the topic of my new book, “This is not a diet book” subtitled, “How I Lost Half Of My Body Mass Without Diet, Exercise, Drugs or Surgery.”

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