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    1 year ago

    “What we found is that consuming high amounts of ultra-processed foods could increase your risk of developing depression by up to 50%”

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    “He said that … they cannot say highly processed food causes depression”

    Those statements sound contradictory (Or do they mean that it ‘could’ be 50% or 0%? But if so, why say anything at all)

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      21 year ago

      He can’t say it definitely because, even though the observational results are convincing, you’d want to produce biological/neurological evidence to be able to make the claim with certainty.

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        21 year ago

        Sure. Then imho if he can’t say it definitively, he should not make the first claim (slipping in weasel words like ‘could’ and ‘up to’ serve as a lazy catch-all disclaimer in that case.)