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[David Deitch]

I come from a large Jewish family. Seeing that the honorable doctor's last
name is Goldstein, I imagine that this botched study is his mother's fault.
As I can now see the anglo-saxon portion of my audience blink and stare off
into space, I'll elaborate.
Although Irwin's choice of profession impressed his parents and filled his
garage with Italy's best steel and his cabinets with fine pinot, his mother
still nagged away at him.
"Why haven't you published anything? Why isn't your name in the journals?"
She asked incessantly. Finally, the guilt was too much for Irwin. Armed with
some old stock equipment from the hospital, the good doctor recruited fellow
club riders to test a theory.
Now, we move away from the guilt and uncover the problems of his scientific
method. Testing for impotence was difficult; none of these men had been able
to report on their bedroom activities since, coincidentally, they had all
been banished by their wives to their couches after their third
Record-equipped Litespeeds arrived. This is like testing an ignition without
turning on the car.
Second, Goldstein's research failed to take into account the weight-weenie
phenomenon. Perhaps these cyclists were a good ten to thirty pounds over
their fighting weight, yet insisted on the lightest carbon saddle to come
out of Milan. When you rest your jollies on a one square centimeter patch of
the stiffest material known to man, then plop two hundred pounds of lycra-ed
keister on top, it probably is not good for your circulation.
So there you have it. Goldstein's research stinks like old whitefish, and he
still has a 'yiddishe mamme' hammering away at him whenever he stops in for
tea. Still, one thing remains; gentlemen, protect your parts.


> 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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