I read the first linked study and it looks like it is completely unrelated to linking colorectal cancer with consumption of seed oils. At the very least they sh

I read the first linked study and it looks like it is completely unrelated to linking colorectal cancer with consumption of seed oils. At the very least they should have looked into the consumption of seed oils per-capita, which I have a very hard time thinking it has drastically increased in the past decade compared to diets of the last 25 years in developed countries. Moreover, when it comes to dietary and oncology studies, mechanistic explanations by themselves are generally insufficient to draw a causal link. There are _tens of thousands_ of active mechanisms that mediate metabolism and inflammation. You would need high-quality, long-term studies linking one to the other. If anything we may have possible found one mechanism. That mechanism could be easily counteracted by a dozen others, who knows. I wouldn't call this a nothingburger but it seems far more likely than not that this is just a continuation of bored Western researchers trying to pin the blame on seed oils for humanity's sins.