Dr. Christopher Labos is a cardiologist and an affiliate member of the Department of Global and Public Health of McGill University. He is a columnist with the Montreal Gazette and Medscape, featured on the Sunday Morning House Call on CJAD radio, and has a regular TV segment with CTV Montreal and CBC Morning Live. He hosts the award-winning podcast “The Body of Evidence.” He is the author of “Does Coffee Cause Cancer?” a story about food epidemiology and why food headlines are usually wrong. Occasionally, he finds time to practice as a cardiologist so he can buy groceries.
Christopher starts by answering the question his book asks - Does coffee cause cancer? We then talk about how nonexperts can reasonably interpret studies, and whether there is any benefit to listening to health advice beyond “Don’t smoke, exercise, and eat lots of fruit and vegetables.” I share one of my favourite xkcd web comics when Christopher describes various sources of bias in studies and the difference between frequency and Bayesian analysis when interpreting results.
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Funny how people somewhat underweight relative to the official guidelines for their sex, age and height never get cancer, unless they're exposed to dangerous doses of radiation or toxins, even if they consume mounds of carcinogens... Nothing tastes as good as thin feels, bitches!!!
ReplyDeletePeople are just not going to pay for content in any meaningful way, so special interests need to meet them where they are instead of whining that they don't get a tip every time they clear their throats! Maybe advocate for redistribution for everyone instead of insisting that you be paid, because you're oh so special and your output is oh so valuable? It's trivial to get around paywalls...
If cocaine damages the heart, why are we giving Ritalin to children for a made-up affliction that acts as a Ptolemaic epicycle to an anachronistic education system analagous to geocentrism? Oh, and Adderall is meth...
Berkson's Paradox is my physician shit test, which l'm glad Labos passed...