@ NoDoji
You're a well meaning person.
BUT you haven't applied any critical reasoning skills in relation to this China Study thing
Knowing that you (like others) who rely on China Study as the Gospel of Veggie-ism shoots any credibilty you may have had out of the window.
Hilarious how quick you are to pick imaginary holes in the meat eaters arguments - but take at face value this charlatan author with his mailed-in "Phd" received FREE from a cereal packet.
CONFIRMATION BIAS, much?
You take as gospel without question the proven nonsense aka China Study.
Pseudo science crap not even worthwhile as toilet paper.
It has more holes than swiss cheese.
We get it: The China Study is basically the Vegan Bible basically.
And sacrilegious. And supposedly is the sole crutch for validating veggies.
Campbell's book has nothing to the REAL China study, on which it purports to be based on. it is simply his INTERPRETAION
And more often than not flat out LIES - to confirm his bias.
No real scientific analyiss - only tons of data & supposed correlations - which don't prove causatioon or anything at all!
But in the end it is still only an observational study.
Campbell says it himself "Since these observational studies are meaningless in terms of causality, it doesnât really matter how one slices and dices the data because meaningless correlations by any other names are still just as meaningless. "
He feeds mice caesein, widely known as the most cancer inducing food on record!
Then he feeds it aflatoxin which is converted in the liver to a much more toxic compound and is often used in laboratory experiments with animals to induce cancer and other problems.
This is well known.
That aflatoxin promotes the cancer. It is beyond obfuscation, it is flat out lying, to say that, based on Research using casien as a representative animal protein proves nothing; it is comparable to using mature opium poppies as a representative of green leafy vegetable.
It's like feeding posin mushrroms & making a conclusion based on that!
Since you didn't or haven't bothered apply any critical objective thinking to it, others have already debunked that piece of crap pseudo science better than I could
Forget Campbell, heâs at best wrong, at worst a fraud. Heâs been completely refuted by smart bloggers like:
- Chris Masterjohn
- Denise Minger and others
Even the Cordain/Campbell debate should have clued you in as Campbells points are really vague and ânew-agyâ while Cordain brings a lot of research references and reasoning in the conversation.
Here some links of Campbell debunkers
Denise Minger showing that the raw data of the chinese study doesnât show what Campbell claims it shows.
http://rawfoodsos.com/category/china-study/
http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/08/03/the-china-study-a-formal-analysis-and-response/#comments
Ned Kock who has collaborated with Denise on the stats
http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/search/label/China Study
Chris Masterjohn demonstrating brillantly that Campbell lies even about the results of his own studies (they donât show what he claims they show)
http://www.westonaprice.org/blogs/2...-rats-does-protein-deficiency-prevent-cancer/
Dr.Eades himself had a take on it
http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/cancer/the-china-study-vs-the-china-study/
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/385/
http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/China-Study.html
As most readers of this blog can tell you, the China Study â although it confirms the dietary bias of vegetarians â is worthless as a piece of the scientific puzzle. It is suitable only for vegetarians who want their worldview confirmed, not as valid science. If you dare to read another take on the China Study than that of all your veggie friends, click on this. Come back when youâve disproved it.
It is interesting to see, however, the general picture that emerges. Sugar, soluble carbohydrates, and fiber all have correlations with cancer mortality about seven times the magnitude of that with animal protein, and total fat and fat as a percentage of calories were both negatively correlated with cancer mortality.
Here's one to chew on:
Wheat intake was strongly associated with coronary heart disease (CHD), the quintessential modern cardiovascular disease.
http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/09/02/the-china-study-wheat-and-heart-disease-oh-my/
Quote from NoDoji:
RB, have you read either The China Study, or Reverse and Prevent Heart Disease? If not, please do.
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