I am outsourcing this post to Aaron Carroll, whose Upshot column eviscerates the recent claim that eating meat will give you cancer, or that eating meat is the same as smoking cigarettes. While the media is partly culpable for spreading misinformation, WHO (World Health Organization) is the ultimate responsible party here.
We all know (or so I hope), the plural of anecdote is not data.
It is time to add to this: The plural of observational study is not randomized experiment.
It would be nice if everyone would agree to stop reporting relative risks of anything. What are the odds we could get big media groups to agree to something so obviously in the best interest of informing their readers?
Posted by: Joshua | 11/03/2015 at 09:29 AM