Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: What Researchers Learned About Gun Violence Before Congress Killed Funding [View all]nonoyes
(261 posts)and I'm not talking about swimming pools, or viruses.
Perhaps you misunderstand the nature and purpose of epidemological research. It is research into any substantial public health threat, not just viruses and the like.
But I hope you already knew that, but I have my doubts that you favor open and honest research into any and all areas of scientific epidemiological research if it might shine a bad light upon your rights to own whatever guns you and your friends in the gun lobby want to own. That's a pretty immature, biased, basically unscientific stance, in my opinion.
The nature of sound scientific research has no ultimate goal to "promote" one side or another in a debate. Somehow, I fear both you and the Congress of the USA, have lost sight of that when it comes to gun ownership, fearing the results before they are found. If we did that, limited research for fear of the results on any other topic of research, cigarette smoking, influenza, drunk driving, washing hands in hospitals, etc., how much more of a nation of unhealthy fools we would look like these days.