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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (17557)	5/4/2010 11:40:57 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 42652

As I have argued on this thread many times, studies don't always show what they are claimed to show for a variety of reasons. One is cherry picking. Another is the failure to isolate variables. Another is confusing correlation with causation. Another is who's paying for the study. Another is the type of study is misunderstood, epidemiological studies taken as the equivalent of double-blind prospective studies. Failing to understand what "risk factor" means. Peer pressure. Etc., etc. Maybe the most prominent one is cognitive dissonance. The end result is people running around treating the number instead of doing what we need to improve our health. (I don't claim it is my doc's fault, BTW, because he has always tried to get me to behave in a more healthy way. But in the end, there is the almighty pill to solve the problem).