“We’ve heard that obesity and divorce can be passed from one person to another. Critics now wonder how the “social contagion” studies ever passed peer review.”

This shout out is to all of the mathematicians and statisticians who are calling shenanigans on the non-peer reviewed and methodologically unsound assertions about social contagions, including the notion that fat is contagious.

http://www.slate.com/id/2298208/pagenum/all/

It’s nice to know that people are standing up against this silliness and showing why it’s unsound and unconfirmed. Thanks to everyone who has the gumption to stand up against the mongers.