A new study looks at a plethora of glancing looks at cause and effect. The study is: “Is everything we eat associated with cancer? A systematic cookbook review,” Jonathan D Schoenfeld and John PA Ioannidis, Amercian Journal of Clinical Nutrition, epub November 28, 2012. The authors report: Objective: We aimed to examine the conclusions, statistical […]
Tag: research
Ingestive society
Intrigued by ingestion? Savoring society? If you say “Yes!” to both, then you probably owe it to yourself to read up on The Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior. The society says of itself: The Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB) is an organization committed to advancing scientific research on food and […]
Dracula research resources
If Dracula is your academic passion, consult the Dracula Research Center, and especially the Journal of Dracula Studies. BONUS (hauntingly related): Testing pumpkin-carving knives on cadaver arms
Further doses of research about drinking booze
America, a rich source of alcohol, of alcoholics, and of aggressive alcoholics, is also rich in scholarship on those subjects. One must drink deep of that scholarship, in many cases, if one cares about the question: what, exactly, did some of those researchers hope to learn by doing that research? Last week, I wrote about some examples. Here […]