Reply to Naimi

Naimi's letter,¹ which criticizes an article we have written about causal inference in epidemiology,² repeats many of the arguments and errors in the response to our article by Daniel et al.,³ involving mischaracterization of our critique of uncritical use of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) and misunderstandings of what a critical analysis of racial/ethnic health inequities entails. Rather than repeat ourselves to correct these errors, we refer readers to our response⁴ to the Daniel et al. article and the other commentaries, as well as to our original article.² The problematic treatment of race/ethnicity in epidemiologic research–including but not limited to research premised on a potential outcomes approach–has long been a mutual concern of ours^2,5 and this concern is reinforced, not rebutted, by the problematic approaches and assertions of both the Daniel et al. article³ and Naimi's letter.¹

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