Your enthusiasm to dismiss the research is notable but there is a reasonably comprehensive body of evidence, to which this research has added, showing that hot drinks do increase cancers. As there is no real benefit from very hot drinks why take the risk? http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-research-on-hot-tea-and-oesophageal-cancer/ …
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Replying to @Alan_Watson_
What an odd response. There are a number of criticisms of the media attention of research above, it's a bit insulting to call that dismissive and a bit hypocritical - although I'm sure not intended - to dismiss it all yourself
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Replying to @GidMK
You dismiss it, inter alia, by your conclusion poll offering only options contrary to the conclusions of the research. How do I dismiss it? I simply note, as a matter of fact, the study does not reach those conclusions in isolation & suggest "better safe than sorry" in that light
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Replying to @Alan_Watson_
You're putting words in my mouth. Please point to where I said the authors of the study itself - as opposed to the Daily Mail piece - were anything other than appropriately cautious given the relative difficulty in determining causation using this methodology
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Replying to @GidMK
Objectively the
@MailOnline reporting was (perhaps unusually!) closer to the scientific consensus represented by IARC - that hot drinks "probably cause cancer of the oesophagus in humans" - than your final poll which denies that option even as a choice:pic.twitter.com/cbLbHNLW7L
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Replying to @Alan_Watson_ @MailOnline
Ah, I see the issue herepic.twitter.com/yVe0K6ZNKh
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To be precisely accurate, I would say that, based on the literature to date, there is likely an association between very hot beverages and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, however the causality in this relationship has not been fully elucidated and confounding factors exist
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While it is possible that very hot drinks cause cancer, it is currently not unlikely that a third factor, perhaps pollution-induced esophageal damage, is confounding the relationship
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Furthermore, given the minimal absolute risk difference observed from drinking even very large amounts of very hot tea - up to 2 litres a day! - it is incredibly misleading to characterize this as a risk to individuals. If anything, it is only meaningful at a very high level
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So whilst there may be some interest at a population scale in reducing consumption of very hot drinks - although given the current state of the evidence, maybe not - scare stories about tea and cancer are not helpful, and should be discouraged
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It is also worth noting that the assumption that drinking hot tea is not beneficial is just that - an assumption. We have not studied what cultural and social implications different levels of tea heat have. It is not accurate to portray this as a one-sided equation
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