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Epidemiology makes headlines more often than most other sciences. Every time you hear that something is good for you or bad for you, either there is an epidemiological study involved, or there is an epidemiological study being planned to check whether the claim is true. (If neither of these is the case, you should get your news somewhere else.) Yet many people have never heard of epidemiology.
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Broadbent, A. (2013). Why Philosophy of Epidemiology?. In: Philosophy of Epidemiology. New Directions in the Philosophy of Science. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137315601_1
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