[Magdalen] Asian?

[Roger Stokes]

On 10/08/2015 21:19, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> My point is that it is quite imprecise to lump together East Indians
> (yes; Pakistani's, etc.), of the Indian Subcontinent  and  oriental/
> yellow race East Asians.  However, that's what this article I studied  today
> did.  This is especially true if you are studying skin  disorders.

I can understand your frustration at that confusion.  Hast week I heard 
a story (from some years ago) of the opposite problem.  A researcher in 
biochemistry had written a paper, and had it published in a 
peer-reviewed journal, of the different reactions of two substances in a 
particular set of conditions.  It was only when that paper was being 
looked at for a journal of abstracts that somebody in the editing team 
spotted that the two substances were actually the same but known by 
differernt names.  (Didn't somebody menation a week or two ago an 
emergency admission because the patient had been taking warfarin and 
coumadin, not realising they are the same?)

It also makes me wonder about the researcher's technique if he (I assume 
it was a man) had observed significant differences between the two 
experiments.

Roger