> This makes no sense. If your population is fat, doesn't it make sense to study fat people? It makes a lot of sense, operating on obese patients is a lot more

> This makes no sense. If your population is fat, doesn't it make sense to study fat people? It makes a lot of sense, operating on obese patients is a lot more complicated than on regular patients, and so would dissecting one. That's like reading an article about how learning to weld has become complicated in florida because the state's underwater, and your reply being "This makes no sense, if you're under water doesn't it make sense to learn underwater welding?" But underwater welding adds a ton of complexity to what you're trying to learn. You don't try to do that when trying to learn the basics and are probably already overwhelmed. In the same way you don't learn a new programming language by switching your editor to windings and RTL.