100% of people that drink water and eat food die over the long term.
Would you be willing to let your children risk dying from this spurious correlation?
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no, but if they drink Monster and eat meat they won't turn gay.
There was a West Wing joke somewhat similar to this.
Margaret: Red meat has been found to cause cancer in white rats. Maraschino cherries have been found to cause cancer in white rats. Cellular phones have been found to cause cancer in white rats. Has anyone examined the possibility that cancer might be hereditary in white rats?
Surgeon General Millicent Griffith: Let me tell you something, I'm not a hundred percent sure we've ruled that out.
The only part of that show I remember is one guy realizing that the stray dog he found thought its name was Damnit.
c/shittyyoushouldknow
Mice aren’t meant for too much of ANYTHING. A friend in ChemE said the mice that got cancer from saccharin (Sweet N Low) were the size of plates, they had gained so many calories from such a large dose.
A dinner plate? They're not researching cancer, they're trying to master pokemon evolutions
No dangerous cancers, though.
None of the mice have ever died from it.
lol
Indeed. By which I mean, where are the controls? How could a control even exist for such an experiment? Any non-research mouse becomes research by default.
And blah blah blah that's what they want you to think. lol