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Major Study Claims to Identify The Root Cause of Obesity: Fructose (www.sciencealert.com)
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[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

As an old, I never heard of anyone getting pancreatic cancer when I was young.

Then all of a sudden pancreatic cancer is something that everyone gets.

Correlation is not causation, but there is correlation.

[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 23 points 10 months ago

Well, part of that is also because we know more about pancreatic cancer now, enough to call it that. Just because diagnoses goes up does not necessarily mean that rate is going up.

[–] 0xD@infosec.pub 0 points 10 months ago

Yeah, and the world around you and the food that is consumed and human knowledge and medicine have all changed as much as you have, probably even more.

Your take on this is ignoring all of that.