Larry Atherton
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Central Michigan
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Hello Pat,
I understand being passionate about a topic. I have read many of your post, and I can understand how you could easily start to believe that our dog foods are creating health issues in our dogs. In fact, I believe we are shortening our dog's lives through some of our practices. One example is we medicate our animals and ourselves too much. Many medications are in fact poisons at higher levels than recommended. I have seen people think if this much is good than doubling it must be better attitudes.
Between the news media and the internet science has suffered greatly. As a trained scientist when i read a scientific article, I do so with skepticism. That is a scientist's job. I look for indicators about the worthiness of an article whether or not it is in a proper scientific journal.
The two article you cited last are good examples. The first article from the FDA is absolutely horrible. Number one look at the citations. There are only two! That in of its self is irresponsible. Now, let's look at the other, it is a proper journal. Look how many citations it has. That is much better than the first. Now, I look at the procedure. Does it make good scientific sense? Does the study have a control group? How many subjects were in the study. The study listed has only 14 subjects. Now if they had 14 subjects/run and had 12-20 runs that would mean something. To make claims on such a same sample size is again irresponsible.
One published experiment does not make something fact. It takes hundreds if not thousands of papers that support each other to make an idea a theory.
Any more scientific principles are set a side for quick self fulfillment or for the quick dollar. Science now seems to be for sale.
Pat, you maybe 100% right in your assumptions, but scientifically speaking there hasn't been any proof yet. Still it doesn't hurt to rock the boat a little.
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