Huh, that's funny. I read your comment and thought, "That's not right - the article has hedges in there, 'this may cause xyz to some extent' or some such." And

Huh, that's funny. I read your comment and thought, "That's not right - the article has hedges in there, 'this may cause xyz to some extent' or some such." And then I went back and re-read it, and nope, you're right. It states what are probably minor effects with rather large certainty. It's like I was mentally adding the hedges based on the context (new study, journalism, speculation at the end). But it was definitely less hedged than I processed.