Reply to post: Re: Usual media over-reporting highly interim and possibly invalid findings

Arrrgh! Put down the crisps! 'Ultra-processed' foods linked to cancer!

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: Usual media over-reporting highly interim and possibly invalid findings

"We will find out in time, if more targeted studies are done, but I suspect any findings will be far more nuanced that a broad brush factory made stuff is bad for you story."

Which is exactly what makes this sort of research dangerous. A large segment of the population seem to get their entire "news feed" by reading Daily Mail-esqe headlines and maybe the first paragraph and rarely get far enough into the story to get past the "click bait". Not helped by self-reinforced outrage with like-minded people on social media "confirming the facts".

This is probably a prime example of the sort of research that should be leading to further research before publishing, not publishing the first vague results showing only correlation and no proof of cause.

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