The linked article is about an epidemiological measurement often used to flag health risks. And it's pointing out that the real causality is likely due to other factors. I'm pointing out that those other factors are hopelessly conflated with the first anyway, so we might as well keep measuring BMI and treating it as a risk factor.
Are there other things we should measure? Of course there are. Propose a test and let's look at the tradeoffs. I'm just saying let's not stop treating BMI as informative, because it still is.
The linked article is about an epidemiological measurement often used to flag health risks. And it's pointing out that the real causality is likely due to other factors. I'm pointing out that those other factors are hopelessly conflated with the first anyway, so we might as well keep measuring BMI and treating it as a risk factor.
Are there other things we should measure? Of course there are. Propose a test and let's look at the tradeoffs. I'm just saying let's not stop treating BMI as informative, because it still is.