Why Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/23/why-almost-everything-you-hear-about-medicine-is-wrong.html

這篇文章對我們都很重要

在國外時，我們團隊所作的研究總是根據書本上經過時間考驗的學說／定律，以確保研究背景知識的正確性。

在台灣的學術圈，卻總是希望走在時代最前端，迎合當下顯學，因此時常一股腦兒不加思索就引用最新的期刊研究報導。

研究：多吃蔬菜 外表更吸引人
http://udn.com/NEWS/LIFE/LIF1/6114634.shtml
【台灣醒報╱記者莊瑞萌、陳姵君╱台北報導】
2011.01.24 05:08 pm
多吃蔬菜不僅能讓身體較健康，減少環境碳排放，且根據英國一所大學的研究報告指出，平時多攝取含有類胡蘿蔔素的蔬菜或水果，長期下，會讓人外表看起來更加吸引人。台北市立聯合醫院營養部主任金惠民也表示，蔬果攝取過少，確實容易老化。

一項英國研究指出， 減肥的關鍵在於我們吃東西前是否「相信」這食物能餵飽我們，若用餐前就想著「這不夠飽」，就真的不會飽。

[中文報導來源]

The key to losing weight could lie in manipulating our beliefs about how filling we think food will be before we eat it, suggesting that portion control is all a matter of perception.

地球搖擺 星座日期大挪移

中央社 更新日期:"2011/01/14 12:31"

（中央社明尼蘇達州14日綜合外電報導）

美國明尼蘇達州1名天文學家證實許多人的猜測：你的星座可能錯了。

Science 5 March 2010:
Vol. 327. no. 5970, pp. 1214 - 1218
DOI: 10.1126/science.1177265

REVIEW

唸數字沒邏輯 德鼓吹學華人
【聯合報╱歐洲特派員陳玉慧】
2010.03.01 03:06 am
中國人比較有數字概念，至少比歐美人強太多了。這是近來歐美專家的看法，這些專家不但宣揚中國人的數字概念，還希望全盤引進到歐美的語言文字中。
這幾年來，歐美的教育學者不斷讚揚中文的數字唸法，不少數學教育專家指出，中文的數字唸法簡單又有邏輯，讓華人學童的數學能力普遍高過歐美。

Genomic Dissection of Population Substructure of Han Chinese and Its Implication in Association Studies

http://www.cell.com/AJHG/abstract/S0002-9297(09)00470-4

To date, most genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and studies of fine-scale population structure have been conducted primarily on Europeans. Han Chinese, the largest ethnic group in the world, composing 20% of the entire global human population, is largely underrepresented in such studies. A well-recognized challenge is the fact that population structure can cause spurious associations in GWAS. In this study, we examined population substructures in a diverse set of over 1700 Han Chinese samples collected from 26 regions across China, each genotyped at ∼160K single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Our results showed that the Han Chinese population is intricately substructured, with the main observed clusters corresponding roughly to northern Han, central Han, and southern Han. However, simulated case-control studies showed that genetic differentiation among these clusters, although very small (F_ST = 0.0002 ∼0.0009), is sufficient to lead to an inflated rate of false-positive results even when the sample size is moderate. The top two SNPs with the greatest frequency differences between the northern Han and southern Han clusters (F_ST > 0.06) were found in the FADS2 gene, which associates with the fatty acid composition in phospholipids, and in the HLA complex P5 gene (HCP5), which associates with HIV infection, psoriasis, and psoriatic arthritis. Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) showed that most differentiated genes among clusters are involved in cardiac arteriopathy (p < 10⁻¹⁰¹). These signals indicating significant differences among Han Chinese subpopulations should be carefully explained in case they are also detected in association studies, especially when sample sources are diverse.

（中央社記者康世人新加坡27日專電）新加坡科技研究局人類遺傳小組在分析6000份來自新加坡和中國大陸10個省份的基因樣本後，發現漢人的基因南、北有別，存在0.3%的差異，但無東、西的差別。