Tuesday, March 01, 2005

more statistical nonsense

Now scientists think there is a link between certain pneumonias and pre eclampsia aka toxemia of pregnancy...
I don't believe it...because there IS a link between chlamydial pneumonia and poverty.
And if it was infectious, i.e. spread by droplets, then why is it common in Navajo women and in poor southern whites and blacks, but not in poor notherners?
And why do we see eclampsia, complete with status epilepticus (seizures) in midland Africa, where there is little salt in the diet, yet see lots of pre eclampsia but no seizures among the rich, who eat a well balanced diet but also lots of salt...
I don't have time to surf, but a couple years ago a similar link between heart attacks and one of the mycoplasms (like chlamydia, these essentially are bacteria without walls that act like viruses but are killed by antibiotics and are full cells)...

Robert Koch call your office...

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