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arn on June 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Salt, We Misjudged You

I acknowledge that jumping from a to b to c (low salt to low blood pressure to less death) has gaps in causality. But why do you not take objection to his uncited assertions that low salt intake and bad outcomes together imply causality?

gruseom on June 6, 2012 [–]

Where in the article does Taubes assert that? All I see him asserting is that more than one hypothesis is plausible and the evidence is contradictory.

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