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by edem 259 days ago
so what was the baseline risk that was increased 3-fold?
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You know the numbers are bullshit when they never tell you:

- the baseline risk

- the increased risk

In the same article. And yet HN commenters are easily manipulated into thinking that suddenky oral health is a big driver of pancreatic cancer.

> And yet HN commenters are easily manipulated into thinking that suddenky oral health is a big driver of pancreatic cancer.

This isn't happening, this is you starting from a solipsist axiom that you're smarter than everyone else, who comparatively must be automatons about receiving information.