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by gus_massa 896 days ago
This is a common misunderstanding of how science works.

For life changing decitions people should wait until the study has been replicated a few times, and preferabely destiled to a general advice by the FDA or whoever is in charge.

Isolated papers are better than blogpost in allcaps, but they are not "setled" science.

The problem is that the press release of the universities and the report by science "journalism" present these single paper result as a definitive result.