found the ossuary of James the brother of
Jesus, says Ganor.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/17/60minutes/main661815.shtml
Gad!
Stephen Black
Bishop's University
Sherbrooke, Quebec
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…is the title of a 2007 collection of interviews of critics of Freud, reviewed
recently on Humanities and Social Sciences Net. Certain of these critics are
said to assert that “Freud is a charlatan, a megalomaniac, a psychopathic
liar--or...a scam artist high on cocaine.”
Hey! I merely said
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0feature=player_embedded
(the invoice goes to the Government, of course)
Stephen
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Bishop's University e-mail:
In my message a few minutes ago, I forgot to give the url for on-line access to
this interesting article.
It's http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7276/1589
You might also take a look at responses to Loudon's essay, which shows just how
complicated this matter can get.
At:
Drs. Various and Sundry wrote:
Psychologists earn PhDs, and AP style allows the 'Dr.' title only
for those with medical degrees.
I, and
the faculty who were responsible for my education at the graduate
level believe that the PhD is the degree that is most eligible to
]
To: david Epstein
Subject: 7 Medical Myths: after, after, afterthought
From Stephen Black courtesy of David, yet another thing he thinks you
can't be without about medical myths and other startling things.
If you access the pdf version rather than the HTML versions of the BMJ
articles, you get some
[to you alone]
On 3 Apr 2007 at 1:03, Charles Harris wrote:
I'd say John Kulig deserves the major part of a cigar.
Hey! [He cries in anguish]. I nailed it too on the 1918 reference. Where's my
part of the
cigar?
And I'm envious of anyone who can be said to have flourished
at some time,
On 3 Apr 2007 at 9:50, John Kulig wrote:
Stephen:
I'm not real big on cigars, you can half my share :)
I suspect it is not me who is flourishing
Ack! That, of course, wasn't intended for the list. Fortunately, not too
damaging, as it turns
out.
Stephen
On 9 Nov 2006 at 10:44, Beth Benoit wrote:
Since I am a twin (fraternal, and not looking very much like my twin), I've
always been very
interested in twin studies. I think Annette's student is echoing our
culture's assumptions that twins are treated differently, and that identical
Annette Taylor asked about a pair of fraternal twins who were identical in
appearance,
according to one of her students.
John Kulig replied:
I'm not an expert, but, a certain % of twins are misclassified. It's my
understanding that, short of DNA markers, you can ask a series of simple
From the November issue of _Smithsonian Magazine_ in which the psychologist
Sue
Savage-Rumbaugh describes the abilities of one of her language-learning
bonobos, Kanzi:
Once, Savage-Rumbaugh says, on an outing in a forest by the Georgia State
University
laboratory where he was raised, Kanzi
First see the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNIz1lg2_AQ
Then get the background:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061020141452.htm
Wish I had something like that (he says after accidentally smashing a lamp with
a glass
shade, his wife's favourite, of course).
Stephen
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4494364
Comment: sounds like a good idea, but who knows? What if the kids discover the
baby is
cute and adorable and they'd like to have one just like it, only real? Although
in addition to
wetting, crying, and vomiting, I don't suppose they also programme the
On 25 Aug 2006 at 10:55, Rick Froman wrote:
I believe that the Pluto story is actually a better example of paragraph 2
than of paragraph 1 in Marc's post. I don't think it is a good example at all
of how scientists expect change in our conclusions as data accumulates. No
new data accumulated
On 20 Aug 2006 at 9:28, Mike Palij contributed an interesting piece on Alice
Sheldon. Her
secret identity as a woman provides a nice blind experiment (n = 1) on whether
women write
with a detectably different voice from men. The answer seems to be no.
(see http://tinyurl.com/floda)
But
I copied my note about Maryanne Garry's new book (Do Justice and Let the Sky
Fall:
Elizabeth F. Loftus) to her. She sent me a nice reply but noted that she was
never a student
of Loftus, but was her postdoc.
I didn't argue with her (ok, she did qualify by saying at least not in the
official
On 7 Aug 2006 at 10:21, Patricia wrote:
Compare to Degrading lyrics lead to early sex, study says at
http://www.postgazette.com/pg/06219/711663-51.stm.There is no link and now
they lead to
sex.
The study is on-line at
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/118/2/e430 and I
First my credentials: I'm not a smoker and have little regard for this
loathsome habit. I've
paid no attention to the second-hand smoke debate, although I rejoice in the
new law which
just came into effect in Quebec to ban smoking in restaurants and other public
places.
Yet I assume that
I said, referring to Jim Guinee's penchant for providing God-positive posts:
Now that I think of it, I'm in favour of a free-spirited TIPS
[and so I don't mind his posts, although I would like to see more candor from him on his
reason for posting them]
to which Jim ominously replied:
I said:
This leads to an intriguing mystery: why is it so widely believed that
Pavlov used a bell in salivary conditioning when he didn't?
to which Rainer Scheuchenpflug replied:
as far as I remember an attempt to answer to your question may be found in
Goodwin, C. J. (1991).
A sub-issue of my concern regarding the study of Ebberling (2006) is their
refusal to share
data. While we can all think of occasions when there may be good grounds to say
no, such
as when there is a risk of breaching confidentiality or before the researchers
themselves
have had time to
On 26 Apr 2006 at 14:03, David Epstein offered:
Stephen, I have a fabulous little Mac-only application called
GraphClick
http://www.arizona-software.ch/applications/graphclick/en/
that can turn a graph back into the numerical data it depicts.
I could do that will the scatterplots if it
On 25 Apr 2006 at 12:54, Rainer Scheuchenpflug wrote:
could I probe your collective recollection for a citation regarding the use
of tests for homogenity of variances or normal distribution before
conducting an anova?
As far as I remember it ran like:
To test for homogenity of variance
Michael Sylvester was challenged about his remark of talk of an association
between the
corpus callosum and sexual orientation. He was asked for a reference. He
replied:
It either came from LeVay or check out a Brain/Mind video
I thought this was interesting, so I looked into it. There is no
On 4 Apr 2006 at 11:25, Stephen Black wrote:
But I've discovered in the meantime that this refers to a presentation she
made
with Scamvougeras as first author at the Miami meeting of the Society for
Neuroscience
in 1994. I can't get the abstract, but it was cited as recently as 1993
On 30 Mar 2006 at 9:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why would you se a measure of word/student ratio?
They only have 420 words about Bishops
but over 3000 words for the other 2. To really have an
impace, add another 3000 words to a discussion of Bishops!
My restraint has been sorely tested
On 29 Mar 2006 at 9:30, Christopher D. Green wrote:
So, what to believe? Here's Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, quoted on the
Wall Street Journal: It's hardly true we're as good as Britannica. Wales
said he was pleased that Nature focused on science because on history and
the social
Well, I think that's how you'd classify it. Not for the
rhythmically-challenged, however.
http://www.songtapper.com/s/tappingmain.bin
Stephen
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As discussed on this list, Pope and Hudson have offered a $1000 prize to anyone
who can
find a case of repressed memory before 1800 (see
http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=177). I've suggested
that while the
question is interesting, failing to find such a case isn't
I was looking over the study again (Diener et al, 2006) preparatory to writing
an indignant
letter to the editor of _The Lancet Neurology_ concerning their unjustified
conclusion that
acupuncture was effective, even though they stated it did not differ
significantly from sham
acupucture.
On 9 Mar 2006 at 8:47, Beth Benoit wrote:
The following article appeared in today's New York Times. It's very
thought-provoking,
The New York Times March 9, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist
Both Sides of Inequality
By DAVID BROOKS
[Annette] Lareau has been able
to capture the texture of
Stephen Black wrote:
As an incorrigible Judith Rich Harris enthusiast,...
Chris Green commented:
incorrigible as in not susceptible to correction? That's too bad. :-)
Well, I do think the role of child-rearing in determining adult personality, at
least within the
normal range
On 1 Mar 2006 at 9:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks,
I am doing a professional development presentation in about 2 weeks on writing
good multiple choice tests.
I'd like to do something interactive to start off. I vaguely remember that
somewhere in the universe exists a bad MC
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On 17 Aug 2004, Kristin Larson wrote
A minor oops on my post a few minutes ago. The Wikipedia entry does briefly
mention the
lawsuit.
Stephen
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No Two Alike (2006). W.W. Norton Company
New York Sun review at:
http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=27543access=815144
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On 13 Feb 2006 at 9:04, Christopher D. Green wrote:
Are YOU on David Horowitz's list? :-)
http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/02/13/list
Well, it took a bit of browsing, but here's the complete list:
http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=06/02/08/1417212
The only name I recognize
On 13 Feb 2006 at 10:14, Christopher D. Green wrote:
Chomsky doesn't count as having any connection to our disicipline? We must
be
in different disciplines, Stephen. (But I doubt it's his linguistics that got
dear old Noam on the list.)
OK, you got me. I forgot Chomsky (well, I try to!)
ITSACORR is a popular programme for statistical analysis of an interrupted
time-series (e.g.
to see if there's a change in trend in a series of numbers, such as the daily
responses of a
subject). As I mentioned in a previous post, given the unavailability of its
originator, John
Crosbie
On 9 Feb 2006 at 12:46, Beth Benoit wrote:
The following appeared in the New York Times:
I shared the story with my students, and they were curious to know if this
program is being used anywhere besides the places mentioned in the article.
Interpreting this program in a generic sense, and
On 8 Feb 2006 at 7:55, Horton, Joseph J. wrote:
Let's see if I can beat Steven Black to the punch on this one.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/health/07cnd-fat.html?ei=5065en=184ed
baa85ef6995ex=1139979600partner=MYWAYpagewanted=print
Congratulations, Joe, you did. You win. Just leave me
Alerted through another list, I offer this rather remarkable report on
restriction of freedom in
young people in today's New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/national/31sex.html?_r=1pagewanted=all
Why does it always seem to be Kansas that's involved?
Stephen
Speaking of Jews for Jesus, how about Naomi Wolf for Jesus?
By coincidence I just came across this today from Torcuil Crichton of the
Sunday Herald
(Scotland), which seems to echo parts of our thread:
But when one of the foremost feminists in the world [Naomi Wolf], who is
Jewish to boot,
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Does anyone know the current status of the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act
(S.51) in the
US Congress?
This is the bill which would require doctors to tell women considering
abortions that a fetus
feels pain by 20 weeks of age. It's sponsored by Senator Sam Brownback, Kansas
Republican.
The
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On 12 Jan 2006 at 7:47, Annette Taylor, Ph. D. wrote:
Maybe I don't read the 'right' news sources. Do US tipsters know of recent,
popularized cases of satanic abuse in the US?
Religioustolerance.org (home page http://www.religioustolerance.org/sra.htm)
maintains a website which collects
On 11 Jan 2006 at 9:25, Dennis Goff wrote:
Here is a link to a story in this morning's New York Times
http://tinyurl.com/9d77f . I thought that it would be of interest to
several of us because it reports on a group of parents who are suing a
California public school to remove a course called
On 11 Jan 2006 at 12:59, Allen Esterson wrote:
A UK view of the great Fundamentalism vs Freedom debate:
http://trouserquand.blogspot.com/2006/01/fundamentalism-and-freedom.html
As Brits would say, it's brilliant (actually, one just did on their website).
But it doesn't travel well far from
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Just a few notes from me on Jim's thoughtful (and depressing) response to my
proposal that
we should teach the controversy, and how we should do it:
On 22 Dec 2005 at 12:38, Jim Clark wrote:
I would be cautious about inferring from such actions, or the
positions of professional bodies, what
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On 16 Dec 2005 at 12:05, Paul Norris wrote, after certain difficulties with the
inappropriate
behaviour of our list web page:
Could someone please tell me the addresses (and information on how to
submit, if it's
complicated) for list-serves for Cognitive psychology and for Developmental
On 17 Dec 2005 at 15:28, Rick Stevens wrote:
This searchable list of 61,000+ listservs might be useful
http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
Neat! But curiously, neither TIPS nor PSYCHTEACHER appear to be listed among
the
61,000. Perhaps we're not important enough.
Interesting note: If
On 8 Dec 2005 at 12:40, Paul Smith wrote:
I also notice that respect among fundamentalists for conservation
of the environment seems to have grown recently from an odd
story in the NYTimes to a genuine
phenomenon. There is, it seems, more here than meets the eye.
According to Bill
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On 1 Sep 2005 at 8:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a student question: Do phantom limb sensations occur in individuals
who cannot feel a
limb or body area due to paralysis (as in spinal cord damage?)
On the assumption that better late than never, a response:
The answer is yes.
On 23 Aug 2005, Paul Smith wrote:
Oh, god, Stephen Black _retired_? Congratulations!
Actually, it's an elaborate hoax. And you fell for it. Old professors
never retire. They just go on sabbatical.
I can't imagine what this list is going to look like now that Stephen snip
has
more time
On 24 Aug 2005, Mike Palij wrote:
John Ritter, star of Three's Company 8 Simple Rules for
Dating My Teenage Daughter is identified as having been a
psychology major (see his CNN obituary:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/12/ritter.obit/ )
No ? in a series [lost count]
OK, if we're
No 1 in a series.
You can become a comedian, like Jon Stewart (B.A., psychology,
College of William and Mary, 1984).
Stephen
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No 2 in a series.
An alert TIPSter who undoubtedly wants to remain anonymous reminded
me that you can become a...well, whatever it is that Monica Lewinsky
(B.A., psychology, Lewis and Clark College, 1995) does (or once did).
Stephen
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On 23 Aug 2005, Scott Lilienfeld wrote:
And of course, let's not forget.
..University educated serial sex killer snip Ted Bundy had
been a snip college degree with a major in
psychology,
But we can try, can't we? For some reason, I prefer kvelling over the
manufacture of
On 14 Jul 2005, Christopher D. Green wrote:
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- New research highlights a frustrating fact about
science: What was good for you yesterday frequently will turn out to be
not so
great tomorrow.
The sobering conclusion came in a review of major studies published in
On 17 Jun 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With the permission of the student who wrote the following note to me, I am
passing this question along to your wiser heads
1. Has there been any success in the search for underlying
symbols/archetypes that are recognized a most people in the
While we're waiting for Louis Schmier to get back to us on the status
of the alleged Einstein quote about which Louis said I will find
it. Promise (letter to TIPS, May 6, 2005), I can report some
significant new sightings of it.
According to Louis, it goes A lot of what can be counted
On 22 Jun 2005, Allen Esterson wrote:
Stephen wrote:
Even more grievous, a letter writer contributing a Rapid Response
to the commentary [in BMJ] supplies two more doubtful Einstein quotes,
equally
unsourced.
Allen comments:
One of these unsourced quotes attributed to Einstein is:
News on the wages of plagiarism in high places. The _Chronicle of
Higher Education_ (June 20, 2005) reports that Bryan Le Beau, the
dean at the University of Missouri who was caught plagiarizing on, of
all things, a commencement address ( a talk to inspire students!) has
been placed on
On 17 Jun 2005, Donald McBurney wrote:
I recall another study that involved self selection of diet by very
young children, but cannot think of the author or source, but it was
done by a man in the 1940's (I would guess). It was well referenced in
the older food intake literature. Sorry, I
A colleague has alerted me to a remarkable on-line essay. The subject
is the infamous Tuskegee study of untreated syphilis in Black men in
Alabama, carried out between 1932 and 1972. My knowledge of this
study is limited, but I'm aware, along with most people, that it's
considered one of the
Marc Turner said, in response to a post of mine:
Normally, I'd just stay quiet on all this, but something about today just
makes me want to play devil's advocate or something...
Black earlier wrote (Sorry Stephen but your earlier comment was the easiest
to get): I wonder how Bush et al
On 2 Jun 2005, Beth Benoit wrote:
Christina Hoff Summers is at it again: This time putting therapy
in her sights. Here's the review of her new book, One Nation
Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance,
from the New York Times.
Alas, Beth's alert includes a rather
Not too long ago loquacious Louis cited the great Albert Einstein for
the following:
A lot of what can be counted doesn't count, and a lot of what counts
can't be counted, which he referenced to either _The World as I See
It_ or _Ideas and Opinions_.
Sceptical TIPSters (shame on them!)
On 16 May 2005, Esther Yoder Strahan wrote:
I've been too busy to read TIPS postings for some time, so forgive me if
this has already been discussed recently. I know there are medical
historians who contend that Darwin was a victim of Chagas' disease,
contracted from the assassin bug which
I know I'm late with this entry, but I can't resist going on record
with my opinions on this interesting topic. Also, I'm looking forward
to the opportunity to once again crush others to dust rather than
engaging in discussion. Get out that vacuum cleaner!
To no one's surprise, I vote in the
Allen Esterson says that I wrote:
Allen is
kind to psychoanalysis
[actually, I said too kind]
And he wittily replied in mock horror (at least I hope it was mock):
I must protest at this slur, which, if widely publicized, would have an
adverse effect on my professional reputation. My
On 3 May 2005, Christopher D. Green wrote:
Father of the Mozart-effect dies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/03/education/03shaw.html
I found this biography of Gordon Shaw interesting, particularly for
its omission of any mention of Shaw's co-contributor on the Mozart
effect, Frances
Marie Helweg-Larsen wrote:
He [a student] also wants to know whether it
[psychoanalytic therapy] works compared
to other types of therapy. Can you guys recommend
acccesible books/articles?
to which Allen Esterson replied:
To my knowledge, no studies have shown that psychoanalytic
them believe what is certainly
untrue. No contest, right?
Stephen Black
Bishop's University
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On 19 Apr 2005, Christopher D. Green wrote:
Oops, sorry, says the CDC, obesity causes around 26,000 deaths a
year, not 365,000.
You heard it here first (from Stephen Black, I believe)
Well, it's a bit late, but I didn't want to let this pass without
comment. Thank you, Chris. It's always
I just said:
But the Flegal study (free at
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/293/15/1861.pdf ) does contain
some startling contrasts to the conventional wisdom, more so than is
conveyed in the news reports.
Well, I had forgotten about the Gina Kolata article in the New York
Times
James D.Dougan wrote:
Of course, this also opens the door for a conclusion similar to the
Skinner/Chomsky debate. History books commonly record that Skinner
was so devastated by Chomsky's review that he was unable to
respond This of course isn't what happened - Skinner rarely
Marc Carter quoted from Salon (05 March 2005):
There were 152 homicides by firearms in Canada in 2002, according to
federal statistics, compared with 11,829 homicides by guns in the United
States for that same year.
And Chris replied:
True, but the homicide rate in Canada was 1/10
Forgive me, this has nothing to do with psychology. But I thought
some might enjoy it as much as I did.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=627944
(dedicated to those incorrigible Royalists, Allen Esterson and Stuart
McKelvie)
Stephen
On 8 Apr 2005, Philippe Gervaix wrote:
2005) mentionned a canadian report
Laval University. I gave an english translation of the title, but
French and the original reference is:
Gauthier C, Mellouki M al. (2004). Interventions pédagogiques
efficaces et réussite des élèves provenant de
On 6 Apr 2005, Richard Hake wrote:
Carnine is perhaps the U.S.'s most prominent advocate of Direct
Instruction [see e.g., Carnine (2000)]. Carnine played a leading role
in undermining effective math instruction in California [see, e.g.,
Schoenfeld (2003)], and, I suspect, is now poised to
I wrote
Given some hints in Leibovici's background, my guess is that this is
a deliberate hoax (note its presence in the special Christmas issue
of BMJ) intended to provoke discussion. Yet I don't think he
falsified data. So how did he do it? [editing out an annoying typo in my
own
(And in the evening too). Alerted by an astute and watchful
colleague, I bring to your attention recent essays on the disturbing
implications of the infamous prayer improves in vitro fertilization
rate study published in the _Journal of Reproductive Medicine_ in
2001, which we've discussed
We seem to now be working on the opposite question from Nancy's
original-- psychological disorders predominantly male.
Allen Esterson suggested that the type of OCD involving collecting
artefacts was an example, and Scott Lilienfeld concurred, noting:
Yes, and interestingly, I believe
On 29 Mar 2005, Claudia Stanny contributed two challenging points in
response to my argument that brain activity and learning in response
to psychologically-meaningful stimuli indicate consciousness:
So if this is to be taken as evidence that the brain damaged participants (who
show
On 25 Mar 2005, Christopher D. Green wrote:
For those following the Academic Bill if Rights debate, see this.
Things are getting pretty hot in Florida. It looks like, if it passes,
college teachers may not be able to mention evolution without giving
equal and equally favorable time to
On 18 Mar 2005, Todd Nelson wrote:
Colleagues,
Over the years, I remember reading several studies (now, for the life of me,
I cannot recall any of them) that use a common tactic to enhance the
participant's motivation to do well on the task: to tell them that the task
is a measure or
On 8 Mar 2005, Philippe Gervaix wrote:
Hi all,
A recent report from Canada Which pedagogies are efficient? by
Gauthier C., Mellouki M. al. is crossing the Ocean and being
abundantly debated here in Switzerland and in France.
In this literature survey, they compare different researches
On 22 Mar 2005, DeVolder Carol L wrote:
Stephen, how early did your daughters learn to read? Was the program
successful for you and for them?
Nah, it didn't work. Both are now illiterate adults.
OK, kidding aside, they were both reading phonetically (real reading,
but not, you understand,
_News of the Weird_, of all sources, has a striking illustration of
the fallibility of eyewitness testimony (in real life, not laboratory
demonstration) and of the extraordinary harm junk science can do to
people's lives.
In the March 13/05 issue, Chuck Shepherd reports:
* I'm Absolutely
On 3 Mar 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had a student ask me a question in class the other night regarding
split-brain patients. Does visual information go to both hemispheres?
I know it's late to be contributing to this thread, but I'm just now
catching up on my e-mail backlog, and it
On 18 Mar 2005, Christopher D. Green wrote:
Just in case you happened to think that the Students for Academic
Freedom might happen to be be a fair and balanced organization, see
this article from Inside Higher Ed
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/03/15/horowitz3_15
Ah, yes, but
Alerted by another list, I offer the following:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4280961.stm
And I am not making this up.
(Personally, I think Penny Patterson's claims for Koko have been
fantasy for a very long time. And why would Koko, a _female_ gorilla,
have such prurient interests?
The irrepressible Michael S. asked:
I can remember reading about a study where some subjects ate
peanuts (unshelled) and some subjects ate peanuts but they had
to take the shells off.The conclusion was that those subjects who
had to take the shells off ate less than the other subjects.
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