From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Thu Oct 01 1998 - 00:23:04 MDT
Dennis Roberts wrote:
> > dennis, is it possible to add this as an experiment to your website? spike
>
> Thought you'd never ask! Why yes Spike, the idea of an ongoing medical survey
> is one I had considered myself and I have already begun some preliminary
> work....
> ...are implicated in renal stones--soft drinks and tea to name two...
thanks for the info dennis. the tea bags and sodas just went into the trash.
i now realize the weakness of my own idea of starting a two-question
web survey for renal stones and coffee consumption: before june, i
would never have had the slightest interest in the subject, and so would
never have gone to the website. but since ---> the incident <----
anything on the subject of kidney stones has my complete and undivided.
healthy people will not bother with these websites. {8-[ because we
would be inadvertently preselecting those who have suffered, we would get
an overwhelming signal linking kidney stones to everything: coffee, tea, soda,
extropians, web surfing, everything.
this has been a fascinating and educational query however. i have a
new appreciation for the difficulties of the medics. {8^D spike
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