On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:08:39 +0000
John Hall wrote:

In message ,
Tudor Hughes writes
I also get my milk delivered but the full cream version.

I was pleased when I switched to 1% fat to find that I couldn't
really tell the difference, unlike semi-skimmed milk which I think is
horrid.

I'd been buying the 1% milk for a long while but a few months ago the
shop only had full-cream available one morning. After I tried it, I
decided immediately that I couldn't go back to the purple-top stuff.

A year or two back, there was a great fuss over a scientific study
which had found that people who drank milk had less heart trouble than
others. Why there was a fuss at the time, I didn't know except that
scientists seem to have the memory span of goldfish and rarely, if
ever, seem to look at any research older than a couple of years. To my
knowledge, there had been a couple of studies over the previous twenty
years or so that had come to the same conclusion, namely, that milk,
even the full-cream stuff, reduced occurrences of heart disease.

Just to drag the subject some little was back to newsgroup's title,
the same sort of amnesia or laziness affects research into
meteorology and oceanography. For years, Lamb's work on long-range
forecasting from SST anomalies is ignored. Then there was the
"discovery" that the "Gulf Stream" can slow down or even shut down. Of
course, the Gulf Stream circulation can't shut down and evidence shows
that it has continued for at least 30,000 years, but it was known at
least forty years before this so-called discovery that the North
Atlantic Drift can suddenly shut down. A few days ago, an idea struck
me that might explain why it happens and how it doesn't result from
changes in the MOC (Meridional Overturning Circulation, not Met Office
College). I need some more thinking time on it before explaining more -
or not, if I realise I'm barking up the wrong tree in the wrong forest.

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