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Do you really need to have correlation vs. causation explained to you? You cannot say eggs cause cancer. You can say eggs are correlated with cancer.

This is not surprising due to the fact that eggs have been slandered by pseudoscientists for the past 50 years. The epidemiological data are easily explained by the healthy user bias, in reverse.



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