Guns don't kill criminals, criminals use guns to kill people

[anon33466019]

Lead is an extremely interesting Hypothesis. Makes ya wonder what other environmental aspects we should control for

[Thebarton_Gamer]

There are a couple of other interesting theories here as well.

I would imagine that all of these things are working in concert to reduce crime.

[GilbertWham]

I can have your toes? Sweet!

[SteampunkBanana]

You’re getting quite the collection these days.

[NickSay]

Prenatal drinking?

[anon33466019]

Bad Nick! Fetuses in-utero shouldn’t be allowed to mix their own martinis, I think we all agree on that point.

[Medievalist]

@wysinwyg

So ignore any study put out by a biased source, even if the study itself doesn’t have any obvious statistical or methodological flaws (I assume you would have mentioned these if you knew about them)?

Unfortunately, nobody has any reason to invest in studying anything unless they have some interest in the outcome. So it’s pretty much always possible to claim any study is biased - even when municipal water authorities hire known impartial water quality labs (because they want to detect problems before any lawsuits happen) the lab always ends up getting accused of bias because they have done studies for other, similar entities, and they tend to find the same problems in more than one municipality.

The solution to a flawed study is more and better studies, not a blanket accusation of bias against the source.

Yes, absolutely, as long as you don’t end up in a situation where the only point of performing studies is to delay action as long as possible. The Merchants of Doubt come to mind!