Nutritional epidemiology is currently hampered by substandard methods and high bias, leading to many implausible claims.

“it just shows the the magnitude of the problem that if you have a system that is so complicated with so inaccurate measurements with so convoluted and overtly correlated variables with selective reporting and biases superimposed you get a situation pretty much like what we described in the nutrients”

Social problems and human behaviors, such as crime and obesity, can be understood and tracked using the same mathematical principles applied to the spread of contagious diseases.

“it struck me when I read that article that this was the conceptual explanation that crime was a contagious phenomenon and it had just tipped in the way that epidemics often tip”

A pathogen's tendency to evolve into a more transmissible but less lethal form over time can lead to a biological end to a pandemic.

“what happens with the time is that the more spreadable less deadly variants of the virus on average in general it is theorized tend to come to predominate”

The recent data on the spread of Lyme disease is so significant that it can no longer be ignored.

“the the statistics are mounting up such that it can't be ignored any longer. Not that it was ignored, but you know that's probably a harsh statement, but it's being taken way more seriously now.”

Lyme disease should be classified as an epidemic in the United States to properly communicate the urgency of its rapid spread.

“some other people are saying guys what what we're talking about here is an epidemic. This is an epidemic and you should start calling it that because it will kind of raise the alarm to the next level or two where it should be because this is a very alarming spread of disease that we're seeing right ”