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Re:Death by Vegetable Oil by ricardobeat on Friday January 06, 2023 @10:48PM (#34284968)
I read the linked study out of curiosity [1]. The study is from the other perspective, that replacing saturated fats with vegetable oil would lead to reduced mortality.

I couldn't figure out exactly where they got the 86% figure from, but the study found a significant negative effect: "There was a 22% higher risk of death for each 30 mg/dL (0.78 mmol/L) reduction in serum cholesterol" [resulting from vegetable oil consumption]. This is in accordance with what the article says.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i1246

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Re:Death by Vegetable Oil by ShredKazoo on Saturday January 07, 2023 @12:40AM (#34285569)
I would think that if the study set out to test hypothesis Y, but their data actually suggests hypothesis X, then that's pretty convincing evidence for hypothesis X since we know that it wasn't a result of publication bias/researcher degrees of freedom. (Then again, I suppose hypothesis X might've been found in a fishing expedition...)
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