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by monero-xmr 280 days ago
Isn’t it obvious that a heart attack could be caused by a myriad of issues? Sure a bacteria could be a cause. So could be genetics, or an excess of cheeseburgers. A heart ceasing to pump blood effectively is not a singular cause
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Exactly, it's complex.

"we found some bacteria in people with heart disease, let's try killing the bacteria" is really bad logic.

Like another commenter posted it's similar to saying a lot of house fires had fire trucks in front of them, let's do some trials where we destroy some of the fire trucks to see if that helps.

> Isn’t it obvious that a heart attack could be caused by a myriad of issues?

I think you not only missed the point but also are doubling down on your mistake by conflating correlation with causality. You don't conclude that burger craving is caused by owning a car by observing drive-through restaurants.