Posts Tagged ‘associations’

Yes. Sweeteners Can Help with Maintaining a Lower Weight

October 8, 2025 — As an article of faith, many people, even some who should know better, dispense advice that sweeteners are bad for metabolic health and weight management. They rely on observational evidence and theories about how they might have subtle effects to undermine health. But no direct evidence. Now, in Nature Metabolism comes a randomized controlled study to […]

Can’t Get Enough of Those Correlations

December 24, 2019 — We see a pattern. Take a look at the list of the top attention-getting stories on the JAMA network for 2019. Because if you do, you will see that most of them are about correlations. Or associations. Or links. In other words, they’re not about experimental evidence of causality or effects. It seems that we […]