Red meat and processed food 'not back on the menu' according to new review

Re:Red meat and processed food 'not back on the menu' accord... by superpermutat0r on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @07:37PM (#22252398)

They use statistical methods to eliminate the confounding variables. But given that they do not understand the fallibility of doing that on extremely noisy data, the conclusions are telling us nothing.

They cannot control anything and it's all just questionnaires.

It's fine too look at these things but they seem to get blown out of proportion every single time, even when industry funded studies come out saying eggs or bacon is fine.

And yes, 7% increased risk is practically nothing. That's baseline risk multiplied by 1.07. It's noise all the way.

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Re:Red meat and processed food 'not back on the menu' accord... by stefd on Thursday February 06, 2020 @08:47AM (#22255886)

> They use statistical methods to eliminate the confounding variables.

Some of those anyway. You can only account for confounders that you know about a priori.

And given they used Food Frequency Questionnaires, it's mostly wasted efforts imho.

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