Paul Saladino· MD
most of what we're talking about here is non experimental epidemiology which has traditionally just been called epidemiology right these are population studies where they're doing food frequency questionnaire and either retrospective or prospective studies but this is epidemiology and I think when we're looking at epidemiology sometimes it's all we've got but it's really really important that people like you and I help people understand the nuance of this because it can be misinterpreted in so many ways and its really easily confounded meaning that there are all sorts of factors that can be influencing these studies that don't really tell us that these two things are linked