[Nevermark]

I am going to guess that 100% of the meat eaters commenting here haven’t died since birth, which is an awfully good track record!

I love the intent of these kinds of papers, but at this point in time (2024 now!), surely there are resources for definitive studies, identifying every possible confounding variable.

Or a series of coordinated papers between researchers, progressively identifying every non-causal correlation so they can be taken into account.

Otherwise, we just get tantalizing paper after paper with its own mix of unaccounted for confounding factors and conclusively ambiguous correlations.

[jncfhnb]

> I love the intent of these kinds of papers, but at this point in time (2024 now!), surely there are resources for definitive studies, identifying every possible confounding variable.

Hard to believe this isn’t a joke

[Nevermark]

> identifying every possible confounding variable.

That part is meant aspirationally, as the point on the horizon we productively get closer too.

For one of the most basic issues in all of medical science, being thoroughly organized and funded could eliminate the costs of a vast growing body of less organized, lower quality work.