'Torturing scientific data has exactly the same result as torturing humans. The victim or data gives up the desired answer, as demonstrated in a reanalysis of a salt study.'
'Mainstream medicine was aghast at a recent salt study showing that lower salt intake is associated with higher death rates. So, they tortured the data to claim it shows the opposite. Apparently, they couldn't find someone independent to take on the task, so a man who has made a career of advocating salt restriction acted as the inquisitor. And, of course, he claimed he had no conflict of interest.
As reported in Reducing Salt Does Not Reduce Heart Disease: Cochrane Study, a recent meta analysis demonstrated less salt is not beneficial. This follows another recent study, Heart Disease Deaths Four Times Higher With Low Salt Intake: JAMA Study, showing that deaths from heart disease are as much as four times likelier with low salt usage.'
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