Re: Pathological Epidemiology (was"I spent 10 years in radiation dat a and emerged as the foremost expert ...")

[Doug Aitken <daitken@sugar-land.oilfield.slb.com>]

At 10:28 AM 1/6/2004 -0500, Bradt, Clayton wrote:

>I was struck by Bjorn's comments:

> >I was actually searching for some crazy epidemiology. Sometimes it

>resembles evolutionary theory:........

>

>In my former life as a grad student in psychology (Oh so long ago! I never

>practiced the craft.) I recall that this was how we were actually trained to

>do statistical analysis!  Back then, the thinking was that if you couldn't

>get a correlation coefficient of at least 0.35 you just weren't trying.......



I would love to see the "data" to prove this little nugget from Bertell's 

bio (in the link given by Bjorn):

 >>....And Bertell has a thought-provoking view of obesity.

``It's not just junk food. It's well-known that radioactive iodine in North 

American's atmosphere slows down the thyroid gland and that contributes to 

(being) overweight.''  >>



Would "choice" be considered a confounder in the data???? <G>



Doug

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