sykhotic

The typical argument for justifying high drug costs is that it costs lots of money to do R&D. This argument loses weight when the marketing costs are twice the R&D costs. Further to this point is the fact that the actual discovers aren’t the ones getting the big rewards of their discoveries. So it all appears inefficient in ways that don’t matter when applied to Google due to the fact that ultimately we are talking about peoples’ financial and physical health.

1. There was a campaign against eating fats.

2. There was an obesity epidemic that started shortly after the campaign against eating fats.

Fact 2 is seductive because it’s natural to assume that 1) is the cause. But without further analysis and study one can’t conclude this. In a post decrying causal links without proper statistical evidence it’s ironic to fall victim to this seduction without proper statistical evidence.

It’s a bit ironic you are questioning the study with regards to causality and then mention obesity exploding to record levels with an unsubstantiated, implied connection to the promotion of eating less fat. Your coment would have been perfect without the obesity comment since your comment is decrying linking things without sufficient causal evidence.