Meir Stampfer Quotes (4 Quotes)

My view at the time was that this was not a hypothesis that was strong enough to warrant testing at such great expense. Other people looked at the same data and interpreted it differently.

It seems like it would be simple to figure out how weight is related to health. But you can't just measure height and weight and count the bodies.

If the public and legislators come away saying, 'Oh, we can never get an answer from these scientists. It's useless to spend money testing diet' -- then a lot of damage will have been done. Nutrition is important. We've already learned a lot that offers people plenty of sound advice. But there is a lot more we can learn. We just have to approach it in a smarter way.

Basically, you have to make a judgment on incomplete data.