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Re:A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity by streptomycin on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @02:41PM (#3978067)
An interview in the New York Times is not an academic research paper. In this context, it's reasonable for the interviewer to take the mathematician's word for it rather than hammering away at a pedantic detail that may or may not be relevant.
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Re:A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity by Almaviva on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @02:50PM (#3978133)
This would be reasonable if people who ought to know better didn't commit this kind of elementary error constantly, particularly in nutrition. It is your attitude, that it's reasonable to publish a scientific article in a major publication without independent thought and fact checking, that I am challenging.
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Re:A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity by scott_s on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @03:16PM (#3978276)
it's reasonable to publish a scientific article in a major publication without independent thought and fact checking

The person you are replying to did not say or imply that.

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