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Coffee no longer comes with cancer warning and may actually prevent it
- sverige 10y agoThe "science" of foods that cause cancer is some of the worst science there is. Pronouncements like this create a well-deserved skepticism of the claims of science among non-scientists.
- aphextron 10y agoThese studies are nonsense. Please keep this stuff out of HN.
- sndean 10y agoThe drink specific studies are generally pretty terrible, but the studies relating to the temperature of drinks and the risk of esophageal cancer are well accepted. And that's what the current medical school students are being taught. (Meta-analysis of hot beverages and esophageal cancer (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4457273/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4457273/).)