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“You can’t handle the truth”; medical paternalism and prenatal alcohol use
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- Published on: 5 May 2009
- Published on: 5 May 2009Not just pregnant women
Given what we know and don't know about the processes from which the 'safe limits' for alcohol consumption in general are derived, would the author not agree that his criticism applies more generally in this area? On a somewhat pedantic note it's not establishing a negative correlation that's difficult, it's establishing a lack of correlation. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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