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Based upon the 160th Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine, Harvard University, December 3, 2014.

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    Kenneth J. Rothman

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Rothman, K.J. The growing rift between epidemiologists and their data. Eur J Epidemiol 32, 863–865 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-017-0314-3

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