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I prefer Occam's Razor. We've already proven that food is one of the largest contributors to heart disease. Not controlling for this is a HUGE oversight, to th
by kstenerud 11y ago
I prefer Occam's Razor. We've already proven that food is one of the largest contributors to heart disease.
Not controlling for this is a HUGE oversight, to the point of invalidating the study.
- mfoy_ 11y agoYou're saying that the problem is that the Southerners are just eating too much rich food. The article, and I, are saying that that is a symptom of an underlying problem. The underlying problem is the eating habits which are artifacts of growing up in poverty-- Poverty caused by the civil war. Hence the leap to "Civil War --> Heart disease"
- jacobush 11y agoI think you are missing the point.