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by syncbehind 990 days ago
[Citation Needed]
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nikolay 990 days ago
I thought it was some crazy stuff, but seems not to be the case [0] entirely.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8772524/

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syncbehind 987 days ago
Correlation doesn't imply causation though.
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nikolay 985 days ago
Yeah, if that was omnipresent before the pandemic, right? But suddenly, to observe something that's not supposed to be present increases the odds of causation.
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syncbehind 983 days ago
Increases the odds yes, but needs to be controlled for that to actually determine causation.

You shouldn't conclude that based on the study and you -certainly- should not be giving health advice as if that were the truth.

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