Ethical Questions and more studies

[Allan Frey]

What Foster has to say has nothing to do with what I said. He concludes:

> =85have the burden
>of developing and defending specific testable hypotheses -- not shifting=
the
>burden of developing hypotheses onto somebody else

I didn't talk about developing and testing hypotheses. The following is
what I talked about.

If a person wishes to base a public health decision on a set of data, he
has the burden of establishing that the set of data is relevant. It's
simply a question of logic. Does the decision follow from the data.=20

An example might help. Lets say Foster wishes to decide if autos are
safe to drive. If he chooses to base his decision on a set of data on
the frequency of train derailments, then he has the burden of proving
that the train derailment data is relevant.

Allan =20

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