Appropriate, given the faux obesity studies released this week:

“Epidemiology is a crude and inexact science. Eight percent of cases are almost all hypotheses. We tend to overstate findings, either because we want more attention or more grant money.”

–Dr. Charles Hennekens, professor of epidemiology at Harvard’s School of Public Health, to the New York Times in 1995.

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