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The problem with people like you who have this Pavlovian conditioning of belching out "correlation != causation!!!!!1" whenever an observational study is mentio
by ozy23378 13y ago
The problem with people like you who have this Pavlovian conditioning of belching out "correlation != causation!!!!!1" whenever an observational study is mentioned which doesn't affirm their own preconceptions is that they seem to be incapable of understanding that it is practically infeasible to run randomized controlled trials to study the interactions between complex lifestyle factors such as diets and complex diseases such as cancers and CVDs, as you would have to somehow ensure sufficiently high study compliance in a sufficiently large sample over a sufficiently long period of time, i.e., decades; not to mention ethical implications.
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- ajarmst 13y agoWhat "people like me" do you mean? Those who don't forgive you for doing bad science just because good science is hard? Yeah, those guys will totally fuck up a neighbourhood.
- ozy23378 13y agoBy "people like you" I mean people like you who go to social bookmarking sites, don't bother to properly read the article, state the (in this case: scientifically) obvious, mix in some ignorance about the topic at hand and then lean back thinking they had contributed anything insightful. In short, by "people like you" I mean the peanut gallery.