Are eggs good for you? Is red meat good for you? Is walking good for you? I'd be happy to never see the phrase '<helping verb> X good for you?' ever again in any context. Is walking good for you? Up a hill, probably. Into a rhino's living room, probably not.
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It's also hilarious to see discussions of 'personalised medicine' sitting cheek by jowl in health sections next to totally blanket, arse-rippingly meaningless, nebulous statements of alleged benefits/harms. How are we doing on that? I guess if the artery bleeds, it leads.
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I don't know how to stop the cycle of breathless chuntering every time there's some new cross-sectional analysis of NHANES data designed to demonstrate that ghee on crackers is a 'worse outcome' than butter... but when I think of one, I'm going long on it.
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Basically, ~80% of health reporting is bad for me.
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I'm so bored with this topic I'm usually happy to just mutter at it menacingly and read
@GidMK poking it with a stick, but this meat business recently has managed to replace my normal apathy with something a lot more vicious than usual.3 replies 0 retweets 9 likesShow this thread -
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It's particularly ridiculous I think because 90% of the recommendations come down to opinion about evidence interpretation but it's being presented as fact
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I can't decide if you're kind and patient, or if you lack imagination. Let's go with kind. You seem nice. I mean, you look a bit weird, but you definitely ACT nice.
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I like to give people the benefit of the doubt but someone's they're just so incredibly wrong that it's very hard
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