re is msg sensitivity superstition in article qmlgainnjab hp col col hp com cab col hp com chris best writes jason chen writes now here is a new one vomiting my guess is that msg becomes the number one suspect of any problem in this case it might be just food poisoning but if you heard things about msg you may think it must be it yeah it might if you only read the part you quoted you somehow left out the part about we all ate the same thing changes things a bit eh food poisoning is only one of the many possible causes yes even other people share the food you complain that people blame msg automatically since it s an unknown and therefore must be the cause it is equally if not more unreasonable to defend it automatically assuming that it can t be the culprit boy you computer people only know s and s but not much about logic no i did not said msg was not the culprit what i argued was that that there was enough reasonable doubt to convict msg if you want to convict msg show me the evidence not quilty by suspicion pepper makes me sneeze if it doesn t affect you the same way fine just don t tell me i m wrong for saying so nobody is forcing you to change what you believe but i certainly don t want to see somebody preach to ban pepper because that makes him her sneeze that is exactly what some anti msg activitiests are doing these people aren t condemning chinese food mr chen just one of its optional ingredients try not to take it so personally look people with a last chen don t necessarily own a chinese restaurant i am not interested if you enjoy chinese food or not exploiting my last name to discredit me on the issue is hitting below the belt what i am interested in is the truth let me give you an excert from a recent fda hearing there is no evidence orally consumed glutamate has any effect on the brain said dr richard wurtman of massachusetts institute of technology the anecdotal experiences of individuals is superstition not science he said i don t think glutamate has made them sick and dr robert kenney of george washington university conducted an double blind test in showing that the people who reacted to msg also had similar reaction when they thought they had msg but actually not although there are many contradicting personal stories told in this group some of them might have been due to other causes but because the anti msg emotion runs so high that some blame it for anything and everything my purpose is to present a balance view on the issue although i am probably outnumbered jason chen
