Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Clean pigs and less clean journalism
A Spiegel online article yesterday about a study of indoor and outdoor housed pigs attributes the results to the development of allergy
Kinder vom Land haben demnach ein besseres Immunsystem und weniger Allergien als Stadtkinder, weil sie früher Kontakt haben mit all den Bakterien, wie sie in Tierställen vorkommen.
Unfortunately the original paper finds something completely different
While there was no evidence of Th1/Th2 pathways being affected, we found significant effects of environment on the Type 1 interferon (IFN) signalling pathways.
yea, yea.
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