Frankly, this steady trickle of "common factor X linked to bad thing Y: new study" posts here on HN and in the general press is not helpful. At all. It just cau

Frankly, this steady trickle of "common factor X linked to bad thing Y: new study" posts here on HN and in the general press is not helpful. At all. It just causes one of two things in readers: overambitious disorders such as orthorexia and underambitious disorders such as apathy. That and probably more 'bipolar' ones like denial.