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There are a thousand of these health/nutrition articles every year, all telling you that this or that has a small effect on your health and life. Given how hard
by pradn 9y ago
There are a thousand of these health/nutrition articles every year, all telling you that this or that has a small effect on your health and life. Given how hard it is to reproduce these studies and how minimal the effects are, I find it hard to care.
- cgh 9y agoThey are epidemiological and their goal isn't to really prove anything but to generate new hypotheses and provide hints for directions of research based on the correlations found. Unfortunately, the popular press doesn't tend to distinguish between epidemiology and more rigorous double-blind studies.