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Re:Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk, new study... by jtc331 on Thursday June 02, 2022 @05:16PM (#31600607)
> Science doesn't get much more certain than this

A well designed RCT isn’t much more certain than this?

Observational studies are hardly the peak for scientific knowledge.

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Re:Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk, new study... by guelo on Thursday June 02, 2022 @06:45PM (#31601503)
A decades long rigorously controlled RCT in human nutrition science is practically impossible. Even if it were possible the scientist would still have to choose variables to control for in their population selection.
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