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“Funny” story: the US used to have a whole industry of private investigative epidemiologists people could hire to trace the source of their illness.

Why? Because there used to be a lot more really awful infectious diseases and people are willing to pay when the stakes are high.
Morale of this story: when rich people don’t have good options to protect themselves and their families, capitalism finds a way.

We have good tools we could use. But if we don’t use them, people are very likely going to get litigative.
Curious to read more? I recommend Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health. By Judith Walzer Leavitt Cover image for Typhoid Mar...
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I found the discussion of Quetelet and populations at the beginning of Chapter 3 of Epidemiology and the People’s Health particularly instructive, especially for genetic epidemiology. #epibookclub #epipeopleshealth #gwas #genepitwitter 1/18
The question “who—or what—determines populations or groups that merit comparison” is an important but tetchy one. 2/18
The concept of “population stratification bias” in genetic epidemiology is usually introduced using a toy example: say we’re studying two populations, with random mating within but no mating across populations. 3/18
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