-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 08/27/2014 08:16 AM, John Sundman wrote: > For a third thing, we already know how to reduce the impact of > killers like cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Obesity, sedentary > lifestyles, tobacco and environmental pollution are all implicated.
> support projects designed to get people to change unhealthy > behaviors, and I understand that research may be needed to figure out > the best way to do that. But social science research is a lot, lot > cheaper than fundamental laboratory science of the kind Project ALS > is doing. We already know how to prevent many, many cases of heart > disease, cancer, diabetes. Why we're not preventing them is a > separate problem. But we don't know how to prevent ALS. Perhaps for Type 2 diabetes, but not for Type 1. That hasn't been cured yet, nor is there any personal choice in the affliction, although the social identity has been long confounded. landon - -- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJT/jUoAAoJEDeph/0fVJWsujEP/irT1M5IzEJ5IpLzb+0LJR7v 1hFzI8isdOPMqSlmZTcPCvBlMflTWHgZjiRJCOfkpBdnIxQ4I+9HUmHEZ057AbgT +RKzkOAc3I0LWbqUGB2avfItO/3Ik+sEPCT8uYHyhcGh6Zd6Ql5ySeK0TD6+U91y lKS+bllHxfAXinsPLqUGxoiy144iRhIbB4dhk6QKJC0xa/5YfGJSgadD9BfhI/jE 2IOlEG3x+FJTL/psZuKuaHixUogPyQeuoYYJCVLJXt2znqst6YNvluE/3zh1fLKZ QzKCFFrCqgoPE2cdD+Z+LcvzD0iWaR1dAIO+lx+AJJwLl9a27xM3M92jpl95aKeQ 8/DNjOWjopCuls29M2uDru5BnhfAMlvUshd6Dkf5P4QabGeupgjayUBVdSN6Yea0 uNOITv9fhRVjegkW9jDaQwCThfwrMWoW9E0eFlS1On8hRXRdZzGoPpE6UQ6gn7oA V55uxTOzDtnaQEu2qIOaBpVOVOQsyYUOZqCC6xQbF2trbS7BnmEogLyWr5BlRdw5 QW7U5bRsocADBaw/z/wJCP4lXWXTThmNNszEkVmZGBFVNSQ8Ew2Z9XjKPpgoJq29 50tsV/eyrzi5cAjhiwQ6EqES9FzpGQb5DfNiCJC19DRUuWDKlPN1HrFfpibPFOtN jwp0wrRibVaWmY+hhm/Y =GJOk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----