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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Coffee cures cancer… no, it causes cancer… it cures cancer, but only when drank with half a tablespoon of wine… but wine causes cancer… no cures it… no it does both but only with chocolate… chocolate cures cancer… no it causes cancer… no it… and so on and so forth…

    This half-assed, sensationalistic reporting of studies that are completely insignificant outside of a specific case in their respective fields causes so much harm when it comes to the trust of people in science.


  • This sounds like one of those sciency bullshit articles where
    a) the study was on a subcategory of proteins that in some very boring and specific cases influence the aging of a certain type of cell in a minor way
    b) the study was a miniscule pilot study with 10 participants
    c) it explicitly said that it’s results are more than shaky and need further testing to prove anything
    d) it didn’t mention humans aging at all
    e) the participants were some kind of worm

    but some journalist read half the excerpt, misunderstood it completely and did a catchy article about what he hallucinated into the study.