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mopinko

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4. honestly compels me to say that this "study" is not a study

Reply to villager (Original post)

Wed Mar 5, 2014, 02:54 PM

Mar 2014

it's a hypothesis that has not even been seriously examined. it is a correlation.
arsenic and cadmium can jack you up pretty good all by themselves. and although they posit exposure routes, they have shown no such thing in practice.
seems like it would take some serious epidemiology to reach anything like this conclusion.

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honestly compels me to say that this "study" is not a study mopinko Mar 2014 #4

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