Thank you. This is a PERFECT example of one of the things I try to teach students about statistics and science communication. The Forbes articles wildly WILDL

Thank you. This is a PERFECT example of one of the things I try to teach students about statistics and science communication. The Forbes articles wildly WILDLY overstates the relatively modest conclusions of the paper. Academic papers take small, almost microscopic steps for a reason - each step in a chain of logic needs to be heavily and clearly supported by evidence. Often they say things like X is correlated with Y and then someone else (intentionally for clicks or from a lack of understanding) implies causality and turns conditional observation into absolutist pronouncements. Academic studies are almost always exercises in nuance...if a news article is not the same don't trust it.