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Re:Fatty acid found in palm oil linked to spread of cancer by CoastalCoder on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:07PM (#29179937)
I never know how to interpret the phrase "linked to" in various news headlines.

Is it just shorthand for some relationship that's truly significant and meaningful in the context of the article?

Or is it a weasel-phrase to click-bait people into reading a less significant finding and/or to impute guilt by association?

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Re:Fatty acid found in palm oil linked to spread of cancer by gregwebs on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:23PM (#29181041)
In 99% of the news headlines you hear about the underlying study does not contain causal evidence in humans. It is almost always correlational in humans or a mouse model. So yes.

Generally weak evidence that can conform to some existing view an organization holds is cherry-picked into the news. Although sometimes it is just in the news because it is odd/interesting.

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