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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The Bradford Hill criteria is a schematic for proving…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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The War on Microplastics with Dr. Leo Trasande

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This British physician who described the criteria for causality, he was doing it during the tobacco wars mine. You talk about another group of industrial activities that and for people don't know. The … The Bradford Hill criteria is a schematic for proving causation. It's used throughout medicine and the regulatory approval process. … we have to have a randomized controlled trial to prove an effect you're never going to be able to design. (28:41–29:14)

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Asserts that the Bradford Hill criteria is used in medicine and regulatory processes to prove causation.

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