You want to know how many? Well, I just showed that if you flip a coin it will come up heads 8 out of 10 times. I just did that study right here on my desk. So now we know what everybody has been wondering about for a long time. Heads is the natural state for a coin flip.
Obviously my study was flawed. It takes a lot more than 10 flips to determine how a coin will fall if you flip it. It takes a lot more than 10 rats to determine whether a given diet will affect their health.
By the way did you read the link? I didn't mention it but the rats they used are a breed that has a 72 percent tumor rate. That kind of rat is useful if you are studying tumors and want to find out how they are caused and how to prevent them. But the study was of rats where 7 out of 10 would get tumors. Figuring out how much that was affected by diet would be pretty hard.
In other words the study was badly flawed from the day it was conceived.
Bill Gill
