There was some interest in this (heads up, @south_korea_ln) when the study was first announced, and More Or Less has done a good deep dive with Dr Donald Lloyd-Jones, chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University. The short answer is "no, it's not going to kill you,' but this is worth listening to to understand why some of the assumptions happen.
21 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 30 May
Thanks for the heads up.
Yes, after listening, the study seems to be very flawed indeed. It's the case of most studies like that... it makes for click-baity articles, but statistics are a bitch. Not only in social sciences, but also in very technical fields, few people actually know how to properly account for confounding variables, use statistically significant samples, etc
Overall, for my own health decisions, I only trust meta-studies. And often, it turns out that the effects are of the order of a few percent at most. So best you can really do is just live an active life and not eating crap.
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