{"id":826,"date":"2007-04-02T18:09:11","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/04\/02\/gary-taubes-limits-and-my-interest-in-molecular-epidemiology\/"},"modified":"2007-11-14T14:21:05","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T12:21:05","slug":"gary-taubes-limits-and-my-interest-in-molecular-epidemiology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/04\/gary-taubes-limits-and-my-interest-in-molecular-epidemiology\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Taube’s limits and my interest in molecular epidemiology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Curative medicine contributes only 10% to 40% to individual health (figures are depending on models and methodology according to a recent commentary in the Deutsche \u00c4rzteblatt<\/a>, for milestones check the BMJ<\/a>) – a reason why I finally decided to become an epidemiologist.<\/p>\n

Working then a few years in epidemiology, Gary Taubes<\/a> shaked the smalled world of epidemiologists: Having spent some time undercover at Harvard epidemiology department he finally published a paper that many epidemiologist regarded as mock while I agreed with him.Epidemiology with all the small risks does not make any sense if not put in proper context (see also Trichopoulos<\/a> and Phillips<\/a> – Trichopoulos admitts that only 4-fold risks should be taken seriously if there is no credible hypothesis in the background).
\nSo, finally being a molecular epidemiologist – things become perverted: Biological marker (that should serve as backbone) have now become relevant exposure or outcome factors itself with all the hassle that make up 10% to 40%<\/a> of this blog. <\/p>\n

Addendum<\/h3>\n

Taubes seem to have also influenced the Risch\/Merikangas<\/a> article …<\/p>\n\n

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\n CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 11.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Curative medicine contributes only 10% to 40% to individual health (figures are depending on models and methodology according to a recent commentary in the Deutsche \u00c4rzteblatt, for milestones check the BMJ) – a reason why I finally decided to become an epidemiologist.   CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 11.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[1371,1372,1373,1374],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-curative_medicine","tag-individual_health","tag-methodology","tag-undercover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}