What David Katz Gets Wrong About Correlation vs. Causation
What David Katz Gets Wrong About Correlation vs. Causation
Plus, the links: a French diet-drug scandal, Mark Hyman's controversial view of mental health, and more
Welcome to another installment of the Rethinking Wellness link roundup! Every other week, I’m offering a small collection of links from around the internet that are relevant to the conversations we have here, along with some quick takes and occasional deeper dives for paid subscribers.
This time the takes/dives are about David Katz’s flawed take on correlation vs. causation, and a French diet-drug scandal that may offer some perspective on current GLP-1 hype.
Links
Here are some pieces that got me thinking in the past few weeks. I generally enjoyed all of these, but links are not endorsements of every single detail in the piece or everything the writer ever wrote.
A Growing—and Problematic—Wellness Sentiment (
)“Mommy, Is Pepperoni Healthy?” (
)Is Adrenal Fatigue Real? (TIME)
Pesticides and Cancer (The Body of Evidence)
The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Wellness Industry Is Making Us Sick (
)In Case You Missed It
Intuition, Wellness Misinformation, and the Importance of Analytical Thinking with Gordon Pennycook
Intuitive Cooking, Diet-Culture Recovery, and a New Relationship to Fitness with
Why Is Emily Oster Suddenly Pro–Diet Culture?
From the archives / helpful this time of year: Why Sugar Isn't As Bad As You've Been Told with Karen Throsby (more coming on sugar next week!)
Takes/Dives: Correlation vs. Causation and French Diet-Drug Scandal
What If Correlation IS Causation?
Hi there!
I’d be curious to hear what Christy might say about this recent article by David Katz arguing that sometimes correlation IS causation: