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17 Nov, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Lots of people are talking about this study which "showed" an association between eggs and diabetes.

It's only epidemiology, and not good epidemiology either.

Here's why you should ignore it

1/
dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…
Here's an article on a study done just last year: eggs *decrease risk of diabetes

2/
dailymail.co.uk/health/article…
The 1st study was based on dietary questionnaires, which are notoriously unreliable.

A total of 7 surveys over a period of 19 years.

If someone participated even once in that time, they were included.

Not accurate.

3/
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Can you remember what you ate over the past several years? How much of particular foods?

Highly doubtful

4/
 cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Increased risks found were too small to rule out confounding factors by the rules of epidemiology.

Finally, there was no dose-response.

5/
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
In short, all too typical of BS epidemiology, and of how the mainstream grabs some study and runs with it.

Inoculate yourself against these studies, because they appear constantly.

6/ fin.

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