"It's a worthy endeavor, but I think they're treading in dangerous waters," said A. Michael Krieger, a well-established interior designer, who received a favorable review, 3.5 for quality and 4.5 for value, but has some qualms nevertheless.
"Even if one has some qualms about the definition, what we're saying is, 'People are drinking way above that level anyway.' " The latest data were gathered by asking respondents how often they engaged in binge drinking in the past month, and the largest number of drinks they had on any occasion.
Even Thomas Keller of the much-honored French Laundry, north of San Francisco, who has some qualms about new-wave Spanish cuisine, remarks that "the French work ethic has deteriorated over the last few years" and that compared with Spain, "you have in France a much more traditional, fundamental-based cooking".
Still, McKenzie, who mostly defends taxpayers, has some qualms about this new age of informants.
The study is "a really nice step forward in our understanding of the biology underlying social perception," says psychologist Ian Penton-Voak of the University of Bristol in the U.K. Weston has some qualms about the reliability of measurements taken from photos off the Web.
David Relman, whose lab at Stanford University studies host reaction to infections as well, has some qualms about the team's methodology; for instance, he wonders if their results could be due to the fact that different cell types are present in the lungs during a severe infection, rather than to true differences in gene expression.
