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by ksk 2963 days ago
>And the article automatically relates it to humans,

From the article:

"Of course, this study involved mice and not men and cannot tell us whether the same processes occur in people."

> when absolutely no study has been done. Correlation to causation.

It is unethical to run certain studies on humans, which is why the mice models are used (also pigs, fish, flies, worms, etc) initially. And such models have been fantastically successful. It seems like you are rather unfamiliar with the scientific process...