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by kjkjadksj 278 days ago
To be fair when you look at most studies that are hemm and hawwed over in the press, they tend to look like that. Well controlled, high n, replicated in independent cohorts, the readership of mass market media doesn’t understand any of this nuance. The bar is merely whatever seems to validate an existing bias whatever the topic since the incentives are built around engagement and not scientific truth.