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Not personally really good at reading things like this... Is their overall analysis good?
by renewedrebecca 4y ago
Not personally really good at reading things like this... Is their overall analysis good?
- chadcmulligan 4y agoI had a scan and the TL;DR - there's something in the water, working its way up the food chain and making people fat. They present a number of possible candidates e.g. PFAS, Lithium etc. It's an interesting read, I'm not an expert though.
- rapjr9 4y agoWhat they have done is an initial analysis of several candidates for a chemical cause for the obesity epidemic to try to figure out which might be worth doing further tests on. They use whatever publicly available data they can find along with some logic and some reasonable guesses. For a summary of their conclusions about what further tests would be interesting go to the last page. It does seem likely there is something in the water, but some further experiments would be needed to prove that. Overall the set of articles is a great example of how to find a scientific hypothesis to test.