| > The Guardian never publishes a link or an academic reference to the source of scientific articles it pretends to quote. This is not true. A single counter-example is all that is needed to disprove the assertion "the guardian never.." Counter-example: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/10/asthma-of-th... In this section, the source article is linked (which is: https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4035232/), that section is: > When Attwood first identified EoE in the late 1980s, it was vanishingly rare, with estimated rates of less than 10 per 100,000 people. But just like food allergies, which are also mediated by eosinophils, EoE has become increasingly common in all age groups, from young children to the over-70s, for reasons we do not fully understand. > Estimates from the British Society of Gastroenterology suggest that it now affects approximately 63 in 100,000 people, which Attwood says is sufficient to make it technically “a common disease”. The same article links other studies.. |