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by blpxxx 2060 days ago
The links are on the level of the xkcd p-value comic. Fact is, in biology and medicine things like this are hyped up and refuted two decades later, only to be re-refuted 4 decades later.

Best example are the nutrition fads.

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This isn’t a fad though. Nor is nutrition. They’re operating on a different plane than fads which are overly prescriptive and don’t account for differences in and changing environments.