Yes, Bacon Really Is Killing Us
3rd March 2018
Women and minorities hardest hit, film at 11, etc. etc.
This is from The Guardian, so it’s full of semi-socialist hand-wringing. These people won’t be happy until we all subsist on green tea (fair-traded) and tofu (organically locally sourced).
Most of these ‘studies’ either depend on data from lab animals (if you’re not a lab animal, I’d say you’re pretty safe) or on statistical slices that say doing behavior X increases your cancer from Y to Z. The problem with that is the classical mistake of confusing correlation with causation. There are so many variables in the way individuals live there lives that picking one variable out of the mix and pretending that it’s the most important is almost the exact inverse of what true science ought to be. And this is exacerbated by running through the mush-for-brains of ‘journalism’, which never met a possible panic that it didn’t like.
Sheesh.