Getting a colorectal cancer probability in a lifetime is about 0.04, eating hotdog adds 8% to it or ~0.003. I like how precisely we can measure it using regular statistics, but what does it tell to a human being? To me it tells nothing about hotdogs

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Agreed and it should be mandatory to add in the headline who financed the study

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

Isn't big tobacco still the major investor in cancer epidemiology research? I mean, when it's not about cigarettes and nicotine

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