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Re:Meat consumption and risk of 25 conditions: outcome-wide ... by smcl on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @08:25AM (#26327959)
Don’t researchers generally try to control for such factors when making a study like this? I am at work so I’m a little too busy to pick through this one right now, but it sounds like you’re concerned about this, so it’s worth checking before drawing any conclusions
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Re:Meat consumption and risk of 25 conditions: outcome-wide ... by dagorenouf on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @08:43AM (#26328158)
They seldom do. When you go down that rabbit hole you realize "science" is an industry like every other, subject to the same forces (wanting to be published, to get media coverage, etc).

Reminds me of https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39054778

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Re:Meat consumption and risk of 25 conditions: outcome-wide ... by loceng on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @08:26AM (#26327971)
It should but no, the opposite is true with most large observational studies - they don't refine the questions or give enough options to account for nuance.
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