gwern comments on Why epidemiology will not correct itself - Less Wrong

38 Post author: gwern 11 August 2011 12:54AM

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Comment author: gwern 12 August 2011 12:53:45AM 4 points [-]

This feels like I am breaking some analogue of Godwin's law, but just consider the association between cigarette smoke and some types of cancer.

It seems like everyone wants to bring up tobacco as the justification for such irresponsibility - it paid off once, so we should keep doing it... See my reply to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2870962 (since they brought up tobacco before you did).