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...risk for colorectal cancer. But preliminary as it may be, the message from the Journal article serves to validate the concerns of many in the medical community. "There are a lot of assertions being made about the disease-fighting capabilities of various foods and supplements," says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "And most of those claims remain totally unsubstantiated by long-term studies." In that light, it's important to take every new proclamation about diet with a grain of salt, Smith continues. "Before we allow our hopes for disease prevention to run away with our common sense...
...Contributor Eugene Linden is the author of The Future in Plain Sight. You can e-mail him at daily@pathfinder.com
...sorry to see Lessig leave HLS," said Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs Stephen A. Ray. "He has been a strong contributor to our curriculum...
...talk enough about vitamin toxicity," says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "And people don't know as much as they should about the potential for overdosing on supplements: It doesn't happen often, but the risk is there." And although most vitamin fanatics are accustomed to sifting through studies and so-called breakthrough announcements about various benefits and risks, the NAS study could still cause confusion among the health-conscious, because it bucks recent reports that antioxidants are great - and that lots of antioxidants are even better. Even in light of the academy report, the bottom line...
...find this prediction hard to believe, because scientists and journalists breathlessly hype each new breakthrough, whether genuine or spurious, and ignore all the areas in which science makes little or no progress. The human mind, in particular, remains as mysterious as ever. Some prominent mind scientists, including [TIME Visions contributor] Steven Pinker, have reluctantly conceded that consciousness might be scientifically intractable. Paul, you should jump on the end-of-science bandwagon before it gets too crowded...