Favorable Bias?

One week you'll hear the results of a study that say coffee is bad for you. Then, a few months later, the results of a study are released finding that coffee is actually a healthy drink. The difference between these two studies is usually the fact that the latter is probably paid for by the coffee industry or coffee growers. Therefore, there's a built in bias to make coffee look good.

In many ways, the results of the Obama/Blagojevich internal investigation (See Full Story) leaves me feeling the same way as all those pro-coffee studies and the studies that are favorable to all those other products that are suspected to be bad for us. It's hard to trust the results of an internal study when at least one of the key Obama people like Ralm Emanuel is still ducking the press. That's just my opinion.

BTW: I love coffee - good or bad for me!

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