In a large 2024 study, people who ate more plant-based proteins than animal proteins had the lowest risks of developing cardiovascular disease and coronary heart disease, compared with those who at...
The three major questions to always ask when getting research results
said by whom
on what basis
in the context of what
Whom: a PR person (mentions a study exists but doesn’t name it)
Basis: unnamed epidemiology (weak, confounders)
Context: standard Americans diet (heavy processed foods, carbohydrates)
Epidemiology is famous for being used in junk science, it cannot inform on cause and effect only correlations - to be used as the basis falsifiable experiments. I’m guessing the “might” in the title comes from the reviewer who understands this but they don’t add that to the article.
The three major questions to always ask when getting research results
Whom: a PR person (mentions a study exists but doesn’t name it)
Basis: unnamed epidemiology (weak, confounders)
Context: standard Americans diet (heavy processed foods, carbohydrates)
Epidemiology is famous for being used in junk science, it cannot inform on cause and effect only correlations - to be used as the basis falsifiable experiments. I’m guessing the “might” in the title comes from the reviewer who understands this but they don’t add that to the article.