October 23, 2015
A little search goes a long way
The Herald has a story about cheese addiction, meant literally.
To understand why this is probably unreliable, try Wikipedia on the following terms or phrases from the story
- U. S. National Library of Medicine
- Casomorphin
- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
- Yale Food Addiction Scale
Next, consider why Vegetarian Times is the primary source for a story purportedly about biochemistry.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »