- Anti-cancer effect of ginger in mice experiment.
- Food safety in China.
- An egregious error in the New York Times. The correction issued by the Times is funny. It says a certain survey, whose results were used, “was not based on a representative sample”. If that is the standard, then no number in the NY Times should be there. They are never based on representative samples. GNP, heights, distances, etc. Plus journalists select what to report — and not in a representative way. Perhaps the paper should consist entirely of blank pages, ads and what are called “thumbsuckers” (fact-free opinion pieces)? I wrote something for Spy that included a representative description. My editor changed it to be funnier.
Thanks to Song Chen and Edward Epstein.
Its nice to know that ginger has effective anti-cancer benefits. How do I make use of it? How does obtain or consume 100mg/kg body weight of whole ginger extract from a ginger root I bought at the grocery store?