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Originally Posted by Bugeater
Bingo. The whole "OMG SECONDHAND SMOKE" is a red herring that people hide behind because they don't like the smell of it.
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I wish our schools properly taught the difference between causality and correlation and maybe even a class on epidemiology. Hell a simple class on toxicology wouldn't hurt either.
The thing that bothers me more than ANYTHING is that people swallow these "facts" and then go around espousing them as if they KNOW with absolute certainty what the reality is. Rarely do they do the research and dive into the actual studies themselves.. instead preferring to trust sensationalist media crap. Don't quote some bullshit meta-study... show me hard evidence. Oh, sorry, that's right.. it doesn't exist. This rant applies to all sorts of crap science not just the smoking propaganda.
In this instance, I have no problem with the idea that smoking is harmful to a fetus. Every worthwhile study I have seen shows a small BUT statistically significant impact. That is plenty for me to agree that pregnant women shouldn't smoke. AND there is always a chance that it is worse but we just don't have the hard proof to back that up. I just hate the rantings and assumptions of proof that in reality doesn't exist.