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Originally Posted by towny
Maybe, maybe not - but what I was responding to in quoting it was your rather bold claim that there is 'absolutely no evidence' in support of the 'gateway effect'. Now you say this report 'doesn`t actually provide clear evidence.' The quality and interpretation of the evidence may well be up for grabs but I maintain that your earlier comment, that there is 'no' evidence, does not stand up.
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I still don`t agree that the article does provide any evidence. It provides evidence that goes against a genetic hypothesis, it highlights an interesting statistical correlation, but as the article currently stands I do not believe that it provides scientific evidence in support of the gateway hypothesis, and for the same problems that I have seen in other research into this topic. It proposes a cause and effect relationship that the data cannot legitimately support.
The article in itself has worth in that it suggests interesting further avenues for research, but that research must be done to put the article in context.