[gabrielgoh]

Fair point about the risk factor. I take the edit back!

But I think our disagreement is philosophical. Ultimately I feel much of medical research is prescriptive - and thus there is no misrepresentation, except perhaps amount of uncertainty that is associated with these studies.

I think hese uncertainties are poorly communicated by scientists themselves, and just appending "maybe" to every headline adds very little to the conversation.

[epistasis]

Yes, I agree that we probably disagree on philosophical grounds. I would definitely favor a more bland article of maybes than one that was more bold. Perhaps I'm one of those scientists that's bad at communicating, but the uncertainty is where there are discoveries to be made, and I tend to focus on it :)