[belval]

> At this point, many of you might be thinking: Zan, you sneaky weasel. Haven't you just cherry-picked your redditors and scientific publications to fit your narrative?

Adressing it is good, but ultimately it does not really act as a rebuttal, this is a biased collection of anecdotes from a subreddit of people drinking decaf.

That being said, if you do feel like your anxiety is always high and that you have a trouble sleeping, it's probably worth stopping and assessing, a bit like how people with IBS will just periodically remove things from their diet to see its impact.

[no-dr-onboard]

It’s a pretty textbook “Post hoc ergo proprer hoc”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc