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All of those headlines are based on meta-studies putting together 100 junk studies, based on bad data, which then informs actual medicine and health trends and
by liveoneggs 2y ago
All of those headlines are based on meta-studies putting together 100 junk studies, based on bad data, which then informs actual medicine and health trends and American X Association and...
For your specific example - "morning coffee" could be anything from plain espresso shot to full 600+ calorie starbucks "coffee" but the meta-study-machine will lump them together.
It's kind of like feeding all of reddit's comments into chatgpt, asking it about stuff, and trusting its answers at a society-level with your health on the line.
- BoxFour 2y ago> "morning coffee" could be anything from plain espresso shot to full 600+ calorie starbucks "coffee" but the meta-study-machine will lump them together. You're inadvertently proving my point, though. If morning caffeine is correlated with longevity, regardless of the vehicle/extra sugar/etc and controlling for the easy usual circumstances like income, that's pretty useful information!
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- bluGill 2y agoBut if sugar is worse by more than caffeine is good your study is in trouble. Or maybe it works but it is harmful because people who don't like coffee are going to buy the bad sugar drinks trying to get the good coffee down.
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoIt might be useful information for other researchers to try to figure it what is actually going on, but probably not. And it is not at all useful for you and I trying to make sense of what we should eat.