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Comment Re:Based on "deeply flawed" studies (Score 3, Insightful) 281

Want to see some deeply flawed studies and legislation processes? Look up Ancel Keys, how his research into fat/cholesterol as a cause of heart disease formed the basis of the McGovern committee's reccomendations to cut saturated fats and eat more "healthy whole grains". Or something along those lines.

"we Senators don't have the luxury that a research scientist does of waiting until every last shred of evidence is in." ~ Senator McGovern.

The link between saturated fats/cholesterol and heart disease have yet to be proven, despite billions of dollars spent on studies for the last four decades.

Comment Re:Why is this interesting? (Score 1) 312

No monkeys were harmed during the making of this code.

How can you be sure? Consider the following chain of events:

Someone spends a gazillion billion cpu cycles having virtual monkeys write shakespeare -> EC2 boss says "They did what now? Report on my desk ASAP!" -> 1200 page report gets written -> another chunk of rainforest gets eaten by steel monsters -> amazonian monkeys get their habitat destroyed - and DIE!

Anyway, cool project. Or, rather, cool way to solve a not particularly important problem? I hope you learned a lot, considering all the poor animals in the amazonian rainforest. :)

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