Here we go again.  Another study telling us what kills elderly folks.  Red meat.  And what's worse, red meat comes from cows that *gasp* CONTRIBUTE TO GLOBAL WARMING!!!!  I'm not sure if pigs and chickens are on the safe list with the Earth's temperature.  Never mind turning off a light or two, maybe getting a windmill like Leno's 10kw turbine.  Nope, let's all lay off the red meat.  After all, that's probably what REALLY killed the dinosaurs.  It wasn't a comet that cooked everything, it was just too many damned dinosaurs hanging out farting.

I guess I'm just tired of all the chicken littles running around about the sky falling.  I mean, the subjects of the interview were senior citizens.  It was a survey and observation study.  Intervention studys that make predictions and use controls are typically useful, but the best I think you can get without a control is an inference that MAYBE red meat had something to do with the increased mortality.

Call me a denier if you like, but I'm going out on a limb and I'm going to say that there are a lot of other factors in heart disease and cancer that you just can't simply "factor in" no matter how good you were in AP Statistics.

Seeing global warming injected into an article about senior mortality only makes it more laughable and it really smacks of agenda promotion.  I really am beginning to hate news media.

Dan Carlin produces a couple of high quality, energetic, well-thought, well-researched podcasts infused with experience, and the last one I listened to noted that in his opinion, as screwed up as the corporate media is getting, only corporate media is going to be strong enough, and influential enough to challenge the established media.  I just can't see how it's going to happen when even fluff pieces like this one get bull dozed by somebody else's unrelated ideology.