Looks like the New Yorker was wrong and the New Agey gurus were right, writes Mickey Kaus with more than a hint of schadenfreude: “As Slate‘s Emily Yoffe notes, the dramatic recent finding on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for women — it was thought to decrease heart disease and increase breast cancer, but it turns out to increase both — was a victory for the New Agey celebrity Dr. Susan Love, who’s been questioning HRT for years. It was also a victory for the pandering pols who placated the feminist lobby by funding the massive Women’s Health Initiative, which included one of the seemingly decisive HRT studies — and for the politicized Food and Drug Administration, which overruled its own advisory panel and ordered more studies before HRT could be sold as a way to prevent heart trouble. … But there were losers too, and not just Wyeth, the maker of Prempro, a hormone replacement. It also looks as if the estimable Malcolm Gladwell was wrong when he attacked Dr. Love in what seemed at the time a devastating 1997 New Yorker article (available on Gladwell’s Web site) with the subtitle “How Wrong is Dr. Susan Love?” Slate