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The endless debate on nutrition is exactly because effect sizes and latency are too small and too large, respectively, to easily establish causality. Without re
by matt4077 7y ago
The endless debate on nutrition is exactly because effect sizes and latency are too small and too large, respectively, to easily establish causality. Without relying on the corrupt narrative by big corporate media, you’d be happily ingesting lead and blaming evil spirits for the inability of your children to do arithmetic.
- ataturk 7y agoIt makes you wonder about a lot of things, doesn't it? Fluoride in the water seems less of a good thing these days and more of a "big companies mining bauxite needed to get rid of this toxic mineral." And how the auto industry did away with streetcars and other forms of mass transit. To. Sell. More. Cars. And all the along the media is telling us they're our 4th Estate friend and at the same time selling out as fast as they possibly could!
- TeMPOraL 7y ago> The endless debate on nutrition is exactly because effect sizes and latency are too small and too large, respectively, to easily establish causality. Small effect size is precisely why you can ignore most nutritional news until it reaches general consensus - because the effect is so small that it's noise in ordinary life (and it's probably noise in the studies too).