This ridiculous nonsense is going to be a blog soon, but a brief thread on why this new study does not show that "wine and chocolate can help you live longer"pic.twitter.com/2HCHweEdJB
Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him
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This ridiculous nonsense is going to be a blog soon, but a brief thread on why this new study does not show that "wine and chocolate can help you live longer"pic.twitter.com/2HCHweEdJB
Doesn’t most of the above apply to most dietary (and drug) epidemiology in one form or another ?
Not necessarily. There are studies that actually report absolute risks and have a reasonable accounting of limitations due to residual confounding, they just tend to get less press attention
There was a great one on treating doctor age that found that patients of older doctors do slightly worse, without overblowing it or giving in to the temptation to infer strict causality
How about we don’t bother reporting any risk changes from an intervention that don’t exceed that suffered by an individual deciding to cross an average road or some such every day hazard ?
Seems like an arbitrary rule to me. Also, I'd guess the risk of crossing a road is so tiny that it'd be a bit meaningless - if you calculated injuries on a per-cross basis, my guess is that it would be less than 0.001% risk
But if not crossing were .00005 then a 100% RR right ?
Nah 20x there (0.001/0.00005), but either way yes it can be very misleading. I wrote a thing on thishttps://medium.com/s/journalists-are-wrong-about-health/bathtubs-are-scarier-than-sharks-a39c8fbfe17c …
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