On Some Prominent Fallacies in Epidemiology
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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 acquisition of real knowledge regarding the causation, and the conditions of origin and spread, of epidemic disease. We have already touched 011 some phases of the fatal facility with which men apprehend the coinings of their own brains as real and true existences, and reason upon such phantasms as if they were demonstrated things. We have pointed out how epidemic waves are created, general
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