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On Some Prominent Fallacies in Epidemiology

menon are almost identical, and yet we never dream of calling the process general, or attributing it to a general cause. It is true its " prevalence" may be influenced by general conditions. Famine or sickness would render it less general; and plenty and health more general; yet it would be an absurdity to generalize the phenomenon or rather the aggregate of phenomena, as we are apt to treat th...

On Some Prominent Fallacies in Epidemiology

Essays on High-status Fallacies

Title of document: ESSAYS ON HIGH-STATUS FALLACIES Daniel Malter, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Directed by: Professor Brent Goldfarb, Ph.D. Department of Management & Organization Robert H. Smith School of Business This dissertation comprises three essays. Each essay challenges some of the commonly held beliefs about and provides novel insights into the role of status in markets. In essay 1, I st...

On Some Prominent Fallacies in Epidemiology

There is some thing in the history of the past which exercises a remarkable influence on the human mind. Evidence which, if it related to passing events, would be rejected and ridiculed, is accepted, when it refers to things of former years, with an amount of interest, faith, and veneration, which is very curious. Scepticism as to the present is considered a legitimate, nay, healthy, mental att...

On Some Prominent Fallacies in Epidemiology

temper of learning when men study words not matter; for words are but the images of matter, and, except they have life of reason and invention to fall in love with them, is all one as to fall in love with a picture." The great prophet of inductive philosophy has here touched the very core of the errors and vanities which gather round epidemiological research, and impede progress in the acquisit...