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This is the epitome of bad
June 21, 2006 by Anonymous, 3 years 20 weeks ago
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This is the epitome of bad science. It is the equivalent of saying aids medicines cause aids because more people who take aids medications die of aids than those that don't take the medicine. Think people! Only those that have very bad asthma use inhalers. Those that have mild asthma or no asthma at all do not use inhalers and don't die from asthma complications. To use statistical evidence that people who die with asthma and the frequency of inhaler use is bad science. To quote Mark Twain to conjugate the verb to lie "lies, dammed lies, statistics".