17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
6:17 p.m.
The evidence about the dangers of smoking is largely based on huge data sets where large amounts of information was gathered and sifted through to eliminate other correlations, until only cigarettes were left. Adam Alan Horowitz wrote: | I would ask, is there any known medical gain that has resulted from | such a data-base correllation. | | I do not accept a researcher's own statements as to the utility of the work | (S)he's done with someone's funding. Seen too much of it at close | quarters... Nor do I accept reeports in the lay press - these are | nothing more than re-gurgitated press releases from PR depts of institutions. | -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume