Upon reflection, Dr. Gilbert Ross criticism of a Reuters Health article on the decline in heart attack rates yesterday was too heavily focused on the reporters third sentence mention of public smoking bans. The news article did first mention better treatment. Our criticism should have more properly been leveled at the authors of the study, who made the unsupported assertion that public bans on smoking had some role in the dramatic decline in heart attack rates.
Upon reflection, Dr. Gilbert Ross criticism of a Reuters Health article on the decline in heart attack rates yesterday was too heavily focused on the reporters third sentence mention of public smoking bans. The news article did first mention better treatment. Our criticism should have more properly been leveled at the authors of the study, who made the unsupported assertion that public bans on smoking had some role in the dramatic decline in heart attack rates.
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