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Major Study Claims to Identify The Root Cause of Obesity: Fructose (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As an old, I never heard of anyone getting pancreatic cancer when I was young.

Then all of a sudden pancreatic cancer is something that everyone gets.

Correlation is not causation, but there is correlation.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Well, part of that is also because we know more about pancreatic cancer now, enough to call it that. Just because diagnoses goes up does not necessarily mean that rate is going up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and the world around you and the food that is consumed and human knowledge and medicine have all changed as much as you have, probably even more.

Your take on this is ignoring all of that.