Thread by @GSlutkin

The importance of CDC having funds to study violence is that we need health based research.
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We need health based research on violence because violence is a health problem.

We need health based research because it is politically neutral, and not biased toward calling people criminals.

We need health based research because it will show side effects, left out of criminology papers.

We need CDC funding and health research for violence because violence is a contagious problem and is preventable by health methods.

We need CDC & health based research on violence because it can help us get out of politics - and toward solutions for violent behavior as we are doing for other behaviors like smoking behavior and drug using behsvior.

More on the need for federally funded CDC and health based research to finally stop our violence epidemic.
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