The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #146858   Message #3402101
Posted By: Ed T
09-Sep-12 - 02:33 PM
Thread Name: Organic foods study
Subject: RE: Organic foods study
""It seems no one bothers to go to the Stanford study and base their response on newspaper reports by reporters who are only interested in getting readers.""

Sorry, I did bother to do that very thing. When I did, I found the research so broad and with so many confounding aspects (holes) that it does not seem to come anywhere close to meeting the stated studies goal - to provide useful information to make any decision, let alone shed any "new" light on anything at all.

Based on the mediocre nature of the study, I wonder why media would give it any coverage at all, let alone the broad media coverage it seemed to have garnered? Maybe organic is a good choice for some, and not for others. But, I do not see any reasons to make any such decision based on this study.