Letters to the Editor

  1. 19875

    This article states that “those who get the [bariatric] surgery live longer than those who don’t.” That raises the question whether liposuction to reduce a disproportionately large waistline in a nonobese person would yield medical benefits such as a reduced risk for coronary heart disease. Angela LamberthIndian Island, Maine

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  2. Humans

    Letters from the August 25, 2007, issue of Science News

    Where did the chicken cross? “Chicken of the Sea: Poultry may have reached Americas via Polynesia,” (SN: 6/9/07, p. 356) states, “The most likely sea route ran north of Hawaii and down America’s Pacific coast.” The Polynesians were master mariners, so anything is possible, but continuing east from Tonga to South America is an extension […]

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  3. 19874

    You state in this article that “an increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, not an increase in solar radiation” is responsible for current global warming.