• Frettchen@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I call bullshit. Didn’t read the paper but:

    How you are going to know about the sugar intake? Trust me bro.

    Causality!=causation

    “More research is needed to better understand the potential relationship between sugar intake and the development of dementia." 👍

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      3 hours ago

      There is a strong correlation between diabetes and dementia. Known for decades.

      Glucose metabolism is a lazy inefficient way to make ATP, with toxic metabolic products seen to damage brain DNA.

    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 day ago

      Causality!=causation

      🤔

      Edit: If I understand correctly, you use causality in the physics sense, meaning just that something happens after something else (accounting for the speed of light). It seems that in almost all contexts, the two terms are synonyms.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causation?wprov=sfla1 - basically all disambiguation targets assume the terms are equivalent.

      • Asetru@feddit.org
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        I’ll just assume the second word (or the first, doesn’t matter) should have been “correlation”. It doesn’t make sense otherwise.