NancyLebovitz comments on Rationality Case Study - Ad-36 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jacob_cannell 22 September 2010 06:58:46PM 3 points [-]

Some initial questions, before I even read into any of the controversy:

Would there be an expected evolutionary benefit for Ad-36 to increase obesity?
How can we distinguish correlation and causation in this case? One possible confounding variable - high vitamin D levels are positively correlated with viral resistance and negatively correlated with body fat.
Have we or can we try this on experimental animal models? A controlled labortory test is the most effective tool for testing the biological effects of isolated factors (as in koch's postulates)

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 22 September 2010 07:12:37PM 0 points [-]

Would there be an expected evolutionary benefit for Ad-36 to increase obesity?

For people or for the virus?

Comment author: timtyler 23 September 2010 08:55:08AM * 0 points [-]

The "for Ad-36" means: "for the virus", I figure.

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