Re: SOY: West Price Foundation Tragedy and Hype:

 on the subject of coffee, I scoured the internet to find reliable sources on its health benefits. Type "coffee" into pubmed (the beloved scientific health-research website) and you will get almost 7,000 results back. Below are some of the major findings I found about health, life expectancy with consuming coffee................

•Heart Disease (up to 25% reduction in mortality risk (for women))

Coffee increases inflammation, which is what leads to heart disease.  The high blood pressure from caffeine use also contributes.

•Diabetes (up to 60% reduced risk)

Try again, stimulants are well known for raising blood sugar:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/01/28/us-diabetes-caffeine-idUSN252279722...

http://www.drmirkin.com/diabetes/9897.html

•Dementia (up to 65% reduced risk)
•Colon Cancer (up to 25% reduced risk)

Again, tannins in coffee are carcinogens, which is why high intake of tannins has been linked to gastrointestinal cancers.

•Cirrhosis (up to 80% reduced risk)
• Gallstones (almost 50% reduced risk)

Try again:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12889685

"The findings do not support a hypothesis that coffee drinking may be protective against gallstone formation"

•Parkinson’s Disease (up to 80% reduced risk – probably because of caffeine)
•Headache Relief (because of the caffeine)

Very misleading.  There are various types f headaches.  But tannins in coffee can trigger migraines in some individuals.  And long term use of caffeine crashes the adrenals leading to increased inflammation.

•Asthma Relief (caffeine again)

Again misleading.  Caffeine, along with theophylline and theobromine can stop an acute asthma attack by acting as cyclic adenosine monophosphate phosphodiesterase inhibitors.  But asthma is an allergic  inflammatory reaction.  Thus is clearly linked to adrenal dysfunction.  So again, the regular use of caffeine can crash the adrenals increasing the incidence of asthma attacks.

•Cavity Protection (because of anti-bacterial and anti-adhesive properties of compounds within coffee)

You are referring to the tannins, which are also carcinogens and anti-nutrients.

Seems like you can find any Scientific study to support any argument if you just look close enough.

Yes, which is why unlike you I actually read the studies.  This way I can see if they are human studies or non-applicable animal studies.  I can also see how they were designed and interpreted as well as who funded the studies to make sure there are no conflicts of interest.

But I have to admit that it was really funny how you claimed all those newspaper articles and propaganda site articles were "studies".  And even funnier how the actual studies you referenced that I looked at actually touted the health benefits of soy including the anti-cancer properties.  That is what happens when people rely on the references from propaganda sites and don't bother to actually read the studies.  They count on people being overwhelmed by the number of references so they will not actually read what the reference states.  Instead they will assume that the site actually did their homework and was posting evidence to back their opinion rather than posting evidence contrary to their claims.

Credible and reliably accurate sources of so-called "Scientific studies"?

You mean like the newspaper articles you called "credible studies" or real studies?  For example this study on the content of liver cancer causing aflatoxins in coffee:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12452679

Or the presence of  cancer causing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in coffee:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17941690

More on PAHs and cancer:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1469515/

Or carcinogenic tannins in coffee:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1629514

And let's not forget the fact I brought up before of how tannins block nutrient absorption:

http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FNRR%2FNRR6_01%2FS095442249...

See Chris, the trick is to first learn the difference between a newspaper article and a real study.  Then it is easy to do the research finding the facts by looking at actual studies rather than relying on over hyped newspaper articles or propaganda sites.