Multi-trait Multi-Method Research: What do you know about it?

Most epidemiologists know little:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.63.3.0367?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=adhd&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicResults%3Fgroup%3Dnone%26amp%3Bacc%3Doff%26amp%3Bso%3Dnew%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bsi%3D1%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3BQuery%3Dadhd&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Good or bad?

Decisions made by medical and public health experts?

Or by experts on .... what....?

https://govtrackinsider.com/stop-the-importation-and-trafficking-of-synthetic-analogues-act-would-ban-13-of-the-most-deadly-256e7ffb63d

Glenn Sonnedecker, Belated R.I.P.

His contribution on the history of the concept of “opiate addiction” is a “must read” for anyone with a serious interest.

Metaphor to describe a new under-investigated variable found within a public use data file

Some days you find a white duck wearing brown.

Should you believe me or your lying eyes?

Ibn-al-Haytham

Opioid Epidemic, Observations in 2017

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/04/american-carnage

I cannot say that I agree with all of the author's assertions or conclusions, but it is a thought-provoking essay.

(There actually are quite a few diseases that, once acquired, can possess a reinforcing function that is as strong or stronger than is exerted by the attempts to cure the disease.)

Quotations from within:

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Ethnography: J. Bryan Page & Merrill Singer

https://muse.jhu.edu/book/197