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Epi Wit & Wisdom Letters
Readers in epidemiology are not quick to write
letters to the editor. At least that has been our experience at The
Epidemiology Monitor, unless, of course, we are running a contest that
involves a humorous element!
This chapter involves a small
selection of letters both serious and light. In this collection you
will find early letters we received from Florida bringing out the
tension between the roles of epidemiologists as scientists and
advocates, a tension which is still discussed today. Just how far
special interests were willing to go in squelching data was brought
home very concretely in a letter from Frank Holtzhauer addressing the
Reye’s Syndrome controversy, and Derek Yach alerted us to a new
approach to translating data into practice which is perhaps even more
relevant today than it was at the time he wrote it in 1990. And while
not a contest, we could not resist the impulse to share again with our
readers the letters we received about the correct verb form to employ
when utilizing the noun “data.”
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| Kenneth Rothman |
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Kudos for the Epi
Monitor |
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| Charles E. Haley |
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Epi and Personal Home
Computers: Reader Proposes Regular Column to Exchange Ideas |
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| Oscar Sussman, DVM,
MPH, JD |
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On the Proper Role for
an Epidemiologist |
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| Jeffrey J. Sacks, MD,
MPH |
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On the Proper Role for
an Epidemiologist--Another View |
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| Frank Holtzhauer |
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Re: Reye’s and Ethical
Conduct |
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| Douglas Weed, MD, PHD,
Jerome J. Karwacki, MD, Thomas F. Drury, PHD, Richard A. Edgren,
PHD, Bernard Choi, PHD, Stacey FitzSimmons |
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On Subspecialties in
Epi |
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Thoughts on
Implementing the Results from Epidemiologic Research |
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| Derek Yach |
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Epi Research--Worth
the Effort? |
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| Suzanne Dandoy, MD,
MPH |
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“Interviewing for
Success” Fails in Some Areas |
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Data Is or Data Are?
You Pick! |
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| Pam Phillips |
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Accepting Data IS
Instead of Data ARE Called Part of the “Dumbing Down” of America |
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| John W. Gardner, Bart
K. Holland, Carol Smith, Ken O’Dowd |
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Readers Weigh-In on
Proper Usage of “Data,” |
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| Trevor Beard, Bernard
Choi |
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More on DATA |
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