There’s an old saying among economists that “if you torture the data long enough, it’ll confess.”  There is a lot of truth in this, especially among so-called “public health professionals” — government-funded “researchers” who routinely commit the worst abuses in the field of statistics that any first-year economics grad student would flunk out for.  These are the people who claim to find “correlations” between just about all aspects of capitalist society, from coffee to soft drinks to cell phones, and cancer.  (See the Web site junkscience.com for dozens of scholarly articles that debunk much of this propaganda). That correlation is not causation … Continue reading Is There a Cure for Being a “Public Health Professional”?