Correlation does NOT equal causation, people!
In case you missed it, in a recent article published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine entitled Overstatement of Results in the Nutrition and Obesity Peer-Reviewed Literature (not making this up), the authors found that a lot of papers published in the field of obesity and nutrition have, shall we say, issues.
Well–as they say down South– I never!
Here’s how the authors described statements that would be coded as “overreaching”:
- reporting an associative relationship as causal
- making policy recommendations based on observational data that show associations only (e.g., not cause and effect)
- inappropriately generalizing to a population not represented by the sample studied
Frankly, I am totally offended. Someone needs to let these folks know…
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You’re truly an obese, delusional idiot.
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Gosh, tell me how you really feel!
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