Or, depending on your outlook, do. At least that’s what Steven Milloy is saying:
The first epidemic of mad cow broke out among cattle in the U.K. in 1986. Beginning in 1994, human cases of a supposedly novel brain disease, called new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD) began appearing in the U.K.
Though laboratory testing seemed to indicate that BSE and nvCJD were similar, no one could determine with certainty whether and how BSE was related to nvCJD.
There were no geographic areas in the U.K. with significantly higher incidence of people with nvCJD and there were no cases of nvCJD among high risk groups such as farmers, slaughterhouse workers or butchers.
When researchers considered the possibility that nvCJD was caused by consumption of beef from BSE-infected cattle, no correlations could be established between nvCJD and any specific meat or dairy product because consumption was so widespread.
Moreover, no one could establish whether any of the nvCJD cases ever consumed beef from diseased cattle.
Kind of like global warming…quite possibly the connection that never was, but the militant vegetarians are just as ready to bullshit you as the militant environmentalists are.