Epidemiology is crap. 
Epidemiology refers to a type of science that is essentially observational and examines group health. It looks at a group of people, some aspect or aspect of their diet or lifestyle and some outcome such as disease. Then it tries to determine what variable (or variables) of diet or lifestyle correlate with some outcome. And epidemiology is crap science so far as I’m concerned. Now let me tell you why.
The First Epidemiological Study
In college I took a history of medicine class and learned about what I think the first epidemiological study was. This was hundreds of years ago where it was observed that people in one part of a city (in France or England maybe?) got sick and those in another didn’t.
So people wanted to find out why. As it turned out, each part of the city got all of its water from a different well and this was the big variable between the two areas. … Keep Reading