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From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
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Subject: Re: "SUGAR IS BAD" SIDE WINS! SEE COVER ARTICLE: NEWSWEEK 8/26/85
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Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 12:40:09 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 25 12:40:09 1985
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> The cover story of Newsweek,August 26, 1985 issue is:
> "WARNING--AMERICA'S SWEET TOOTH MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO ITS HEALTH".  
> For those particularly nasty scoffers,who have been doing their best
> to ridicule those who have been trying to share this important new
> knowledge, I have a question:  "WHO'S LAUGHING NOW ?"
> 
Dear Walt,

"Don't believe everything you read in the newspapers."

Tell me, since when is the cover title of Newsweek proof of anything?
When is an article in a popular newsmagazine proof of anything?  Even so,
did you even READ the article?  If you had, you would have noted that
it said nothing to contradict the common scientific opinion on sugar,
namely that it contributes to dental caries and obesity, period.  Which
makes sense, of course, since such articles are simply reviews of the
scientific literature made palatable by a popular style.

If you want to be taken seriously, and not "scoffed at", then use your
head, and don't act stupid.  Don't make silly comments like "who's laughing
now" on the basis of a sensational cover on Newsweek.  (And finally, turn
your CAPS LOCK key off :-))  If you want to strengthen your position, then
use the tools of the scientific method and present some real, hard
evidence.  You'll get people to listen.  As it is, both you and Stanions
come off as buffoons (sorry to be so blunt, but that's the way it is)
misapplying logic and grasping at non-evidence in a desperate attempt to
validate your opinions.  And then you wonder why reasonable people don't
take you seriosly!
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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