Interested in your thoughts on this one, @GidMK https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/01/bacon-cancer-processed-meats-nitrates-nitrites-sausages …
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Replying to @MelissaLDavey
Ok, so. Long read. Lots there. I think the biggest issue is the overemphasis of risk from cancer directly from nitrate/ites and the downplaying of the risk of food poisoning from contaminated meats
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Replying to @GidMK @MelissaLDavey
For example, the article specifically states that there has not been a single case of botulism poisoning associated with Parma ham, even though later it's noted that botulism poisoning is crazy rare and this may not be a great measure of food safety
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Replying to @GidMK @MelissaLDavey
The cancer risk from processed meats was only confirmed recently in part because it's really small, so until we did ENORMOUS (250k+) cohort studies, it was pretty hard to see
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Replying to @GidMK @MelissaLDavey
Also, the first ~3,000 words focus entirely on one group of chemicals and then there's only a single paragraph mentioning that the increased risk is likely due to a group of things including haem-iron and others
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Replying to @GidMK @MelissaLDavey
And the excuse for discarding all the other carcinogens that may be causing the cancer risk in people is terrible. "There remains no plausible explanation" is just nonsense, there are any number of mechanisms that aren't mentioned in this piecepic.twitter.com/y4N3GLcG3M
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Replying to @GidMK @MelissaLDavey
It's a bit like picking a single chemical out of cigarettes and blaming all lung cancer on that. You can't, because it's far more complicated than that
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For example, found this study with 4 mechanisms from a quick Google scholar searchpic.twitter.com/Vlfn4J9k2i
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