[recursivecaveat]

Not necessarily. Looking before crossing the street is inversely correlated with getting hit by a truck. Getting trucked is inversely correlated with getting mauled by a lion (most places with wild lions are light on road traffic). Doesn't mean that looking both ways will increase your odds of becoming lion chow though.

[tfwnopmt]

I'm not sure what this strawman is going on about, but the cancer-alzheimer's inverse correlation is a well known phenomenon

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41514-026-00442-1

[thin_carapace]

alzheimers must be a byproduct of some process the body uses to fight cancer. thank you so much for sharing this article, it is the most interesting physiological discovery I've heard in a long time. next steps we need to identify whether this hypothetical anti cancer mechanism is selective or constantly active. the plaques were a dead end but not a dead end!!!