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Sounds to me that you're trusting authority that just happens to be of a different sort.
No, I do not. I actually read the papers and see if they make sense. One of my long-standing complaints is that in medical research no one releases the data -- it would be very useful to reanalyze it is a bit less brain-dead fashion.
Then why'd you recommend Minger's criticism? Because as far as I can tell it doesn't make sense.
Makes a lot of sense to me. What is it that doesn't make sense to you?
Let's start with the sturm and drang over Tuoli, I suppose. Why aren't they an obvious outlier?
Um, it is.
To quote Minger
Also, to continue quoting Minger,
Yet elsewhere:
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Or, you know, they're an insular minority with peculiar nutritional requirements.
You said that Minger's criticism of TCS "doesn't make sense". Did you actually have anything specific in mind?
I also don't see much problems with the passages you quoted.
They contradict each other. Why isn't Tuoli an outlier?
You're quoting from the page which says right on top:
You seem to be more interested in creating gotchas than in finding out what's actually happening in reality.
I am sorry, did you miss that comment?
But if you want to pretend Tuoli doesn't exist, sure, you can pretend Tuoli doesn't exist. What next?