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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Maybe Cheeseburgers Aren't so Bad?

Maybe Cheeseburgers Aren't so Bad?


After piles of national news headlines about how "bad" high-protein diets are, a little more truth comes out.

Debunked: Cheeseburger as bad as Smoking

The lesson? Never confuse observational studies with experiments (and journalists need to understand statistics better)

How many shoot up? No one knows.

How many shoot up? No one knows.

It's very difficult to get good data on many behavioral issues.  Here's a great example.

How Many Daily Heroin Users Are There in the U.S.? Somewhere Between 60,000 and 1 Million. Maybe.