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Re:The Role of Diet on the Gut Microbiome, Mood and Happiness by amanaplanacanal on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @05:17PM (#35720143)
You have tapped into a logical fallacy. A is associated with B. B is associated with C. This in no way indicates that A causes C. It just doesn’t. You have to show that A and C are associated, then you have to determine causation. You can’t skip steps.

I see this all the time in nutrition “science”, and it is just bad science.

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Re:The Role of Diet on the Gut Microbiome, Mood and Happiness by hombre_fatal on Thursday April 27, 2023 @01:53PM (#35732011)
Do you think there is no research into saturated fat and heart disease (A->C)? I beg you to google it instead of washing your hands of it because one guy on HN doesn't have the time to walk you through the literature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated_fat#Association_with...

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