Video Transcript
I’ve lengthy been within the affiliation of meals with human well being, ever since I entered my graduate research program at Cornell College in August of 1956. For a profession, I due to this fact did experimental analysis with numerous energetic and galvanizing college students and senior colleagues of the same thirst for information. In this sort of analysis, we begin with hypotheses (statements of presumed reality) then designed experiments to acquire proof that both helps or denies the hypotheses. That is science at its greatest.
Nonetheless, six many years later, on this matter of meals and well being, I’ve now grow to be awed with the quantity of detailed info now gathered on this subject. However I even have grow to be questioning what are we actually studying, except for producing misinformation and confusion. Are we actually getting solutions to essentially massive issues now going through us? I’ve grow to be deeply troubled by the seemingly countless debates about trivia and misinformation as if we had been listening to one thing profound about life itself.
Though I can’t promise how far we will go, I’m taking the result in introduce a sequence of quick bursts of opinions and observations of my very own which have arisen from my greater than 5 many years of experimental analysis, coverage improvement and lecturing. Within the first burst of this stuff, I’ll report on some intriguing findings from my very own analysis laboratory early in my profession, thus explaining the alternatives throughout my analysis profession that I needed to make when our questions and hypotheses yielded incomplete solutions that demanded nonetheless extra questions and hypotheses. I typically had to decide on different paths to take, some standard and presumably useful and hopeful, others extra provocative and dear to my credibility and future funding requests.
I hope that this stuff flowing from my voice and my hand will stimulate some dialogue as we go ahead.
Matter #1 – Casein is a Carcinogen. Actually?
Many individuals have heard me say, “Casein [the main protein of cow’s milk] is essentially the most related chemical carcinogen ever recognized.” Responsible, as charged. Many occasions I’ve mentioned this. For the sake of this dialogue, let’s name it an speculation, that’s, “Casein causes most cancers”.
How can essentially the most revered of all vitamins improve essentially the most feared of all ailments? “Heresy”, the mob would possibly shout.
However it’s true. In my laboratory analysis carried out over 1 / 4 century, funded by taxpayer {dollars} with findings printed in the perfect journals, we studied this impact in some ways at a most elementary, mobile and sub-cellular degree as a lot analysis as for every other chemical deemed to be a carcinogen. Science when executed proper implies that a speculation needs to be falsifiable, which means it needs to be potential to show it incorrect. In any other case, such views are dreamlike. Personally, I needed to have construction to our analysis each to hunt continued funding for our analysis and to legitimately query assumptions of generations of my household earlier than me. I grew up milking cows for a residing and consuming all of the milk I might gulp.
Query: Assuming casein is a chemical carcinogen, what will we do with such info?
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