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    23 hours ago

    The three major questions to always ask when getting research results

    • said by whom
    • on what basis
    • in the context of what

    Whom: a PR person (mentions a study exists but doesn’t name it)

    Basis: unnamed epidemiology (weak, confounders)

    Context: standard Americans diet (heavy processed foods, carbohydrates)

    Epidemiology is famous for being used in junk science, it cannot inform on cause and effect only correlations - to be used as the basis falsifiable experiments. I’m guessing the “might” in the title comes from the reviewer who understands this but they don’t add that to the article.