[*BCM*] Check out Serious Riders, Your Bicycle Seat May Affect Your Love Life - The N

Jym Dyer jym at econet.org
Tue Oct 4 21:15:12 EDT 2005


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/04/health/nutrition/04bike.html

| Dr. Irwin Goldstein, who had studied the problem, asserted
| that "there are only two kinds of male cyclists - those
| who are impotent and those who will be impotent."
|
| Cyclists became angry and defensive, he said ...

=v= Goldstein's work was shoddy.  He used a self-selecting
nonrepresentative sample of men who rode bikes and were
impotent, and *he* got angry and defensive about it.  (Ask
men who rode in the Charles River Wheelmen in those days.)

=v= Which has no bearing on the recent studies, but this
practice of digging up a past "expert" to fume and fuss
about his past critics is kinda dumb.
    <_Jym_>


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