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But You Can’t Tell Them Much

     Just when I thought that Tuula Paajanen came up with the most obvious “duh” statement of the year, here comes Melanie Dove of the Harvard School of Public Health.  Ms. Dove was the lead author in their study of the effects of cigarette smoke on young children.

     After an arduous study of over 11,000 children in the US, Ms. Dove’s report concluded that children who live in non-smoking homes are much less likely to experience second-hand smoke than those children in homes where parents smoked. 

    At what point, I have to ask, did the researchers realize that this might not be quite as useful information as they had hoped.  Did they think maybe another 11,000 children might lead to a different conclusion??

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One Response to “But You Can’t Tell Them Much”

  1. Phillip Morris Says:
    June 15th, 2010 at 2:56 PM

    Dear Wry One,
    A Harvard woman, I should have known. The only thing worse is a Harvard man. As the saying goes “You can alswys tell a Harvard man or woman, but you can’t tell them much”….What, they were out of tsetse flies to test for Malaria? Guess who paid for that study…..right! you and me! Perhaps next they could find out where the birds go at night?…or if fish ever sleep, or why the boneheads in Washington fund this stuff! We have POTUS and TOTUS, now we have AKOTUS…thats president of the United States, Teleprompter of the United States, and now Ass kickers of the United States.

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