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The headline given by "vegsource" to the article on T. Colin Campbell's reply ("China Study Author Colin Campbell Slaps Down Critic") is unfortunate, since his reply is surprisingly detailed and collegial.

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I think this would be excellent material for a medical statistics course. Fortunately, the raw data is available.

Do the data support the TCC's conclusions?

Are Denise Minger's critiques valid?

Harriet Hall from Science Based Medecine finds Denise Mingers critiques good and well researched: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-china-study-revisited/

But they are not. She didn't control any variables. She also didn't mention that TCC published several studies that go against the thesis of China Study, after he wrote the book.

There's definitely valid criticism of the epidemiological study model but Monger's sloppy data munging is not.

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