Is The Spirit Level right about inequality and obesity?

Many have expressed the opinion that the very simple correlations shown in The Spirit Level alone can never show meaningful causality – this is correct. However, people can always claim the academic literature shows the same thing. Unfortunately this gulf will always exist, and the public (and even occasionally other academics) can be tricked into believing a relationship, because there is a so called academic ‘consensus’.

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Source: http://www.iea.org.uk/blog/is-the-spirit-level-right-about-inequality-and-obesity

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