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To the Editor: I do want to make an apology to the American people for my role in what turned out to be the bad-apple hypothesis (March 17 issue)¹. It was all a terrible mistake. I remember very clearly the advice I gave to my economist colleague. It was the same advice I gave to the Senate Finance Committee: a program in outcomes research must include clinical trials. In the case of Mrs. Clinton's audacious theory that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, the first step may well be a correlation study of apple eating and visits . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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