Since the 1960s, this has been the standard conversation in dermatology offices:
PATIENT I think Food X causes acne. After I eat Food X, I break out.
DOCTOR There’s no link between food and acne, but if something bothers you, don’t eat it.
Here is Governor Huckabee campaigning for President:
“If you want to believe that you and your family came from apes, that’s fine,” Huckabee said after an early debate. “I’ll accept that. I just don’t happen to think that I did.”
The dermatologists made a mountain out of a molehill (the diet/acne question hadn’t been carefully studied). Huckabee made a molehill out of a mountain.