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Author's Response to The Triumph Of The Null Hypothesis: Epidemiology In An Age Of Change

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D. –
March 10, 2009
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Maziak outlines the crisis in epidemiology that has been brewing for many years and was documented very forcefully in 1995 by Taubes. Taubes then focused mostly on the scandal of small effects research, which is falsely asserted as proof of causation, quoting Marcia Angell of The New England Journal of Medicine, Dimitrious Trichopoulos, chairman of Epidemiology at Harvard, Sir Richard Peto, Ken Rothman and others.