Erschienen in:
12.02.2019 | COMMENTARY
Unreformed nutritional epidemiology: a lamp post in the dark forest
verfasst von:
John P. A. Ioannidis
Erschienen in:
European Journal of Epidemiology
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Ausgabe 4/2019
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Excerpt
Giovannucci disagrees [
1] that reform is needed [
2‐
4] in nutritional epidemiology. He argues that nutritional effects are large, and that traditional means of measuring exposure and handling confounding secure reliable answers. Complexity is manageable through readily definable diet patterns, important questions are obvious, we pretty much know the answers. Analyses demonstrate the wisdom of our hypotheses. Giovannucci eloquently admits searching under the lamp post, confident that whatever is worth finding is right there. …