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retire urologist:

There's a researcher in town at Johns Hopkins who is developing a test on blood stickiness, which he and apparently some other researchers feel is a better indicator than cholesterol level. Have you heard anything about it? I was pretty interested in it (from a layman's "I'd like to stay alive" standpoint), but Angell's article has dashed the hopes of a lot of recent innovations I've read about. But at least there is some pockets of criticism of accepted protocol.

Aaron

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frelkins, re: Taubes: he's considered a lunatic by the medical establishment.

The "medical establishment" is the subject of Balan's post, or rather, their dishonesty, inaccuracy, immorality, and overconfidence. If you prefer to go by the guidelines of the AHA and the pharmaceutical cartel, you live in a free country that is perfectly suited to accommodate you. Every discovery is a departure from previously held notions, and is typically resisted by the "establishment".

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