Great article about the "obesity epidemic"

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And not only because it uses my favorite example of confusing correlation with causation:

Killing Turkeys Causes Winter by Sandy Szwarc

(Those of you participating in the current LJ fat flame war, feel free to use this as ammo.)

Comments

[daltong.livejournal.com]

Thanks. That was awesome.

I read Eat Fat, which is referenced in the article, a couple of years ago and it was a very liberating experience. How to Lie with Statistics is also a nice resource for this sort of thing.