Math-Torture of the Day "proves" we're orangutans

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epidemiology
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(Nick) #1

The UK news is going crazy with the latest epidemiological BS, where we’re told to stuff ourselves with vegetation or die!

Fruit and veg: For a longer life eat 10 a day

Amusingly, after spending the entire article pontificating on how specific fruits might single-handedly save us from cancer and, I’d imagine, our Soul from eternal damnation, the final paragraph gives up the game:

Not all of the 95 studies that were analysed fully accounted for other aspects of lifestyle,
such as exercise levels, that could also play a role in prolonging lives.

You don’t say!

Make no mistake. These tendentious pieces of ascetic propaganda are not science. They are an insult to the scientific method.