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boringusernameon Coronavirus is most deadly if you are older and male – new data reveal the risks

That’s a really complicated way to say you have no evidence.

boringusernameon China Built a Vast New Infrastructure to Imprison Uighurs

Thank you for your whataboutism. OP brought up Lebron James because he likes to publicly moralize about how certain lives matter and ignores an actual genocide in the country keeping him paid.

boringusernameon Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enforcement Requests

Right, when have words ever been used for anything bad by anyone?

boringusernameon How Weight Training Might Change the Brain

That program is basically a rip-off of Mark Rippetoe’s work in Starting Strength which I also recommend.

boringusernameon Is everything we eat associated with cancer? A systematic cookbook review

This is the inevitable result of clueless reporting on bad epidemiological studies.

Look at any study behind one of these headlines and there will be a raft of confounding factors that were never controlled for. The data is close to meaningless at a certain point.

boringusernameon Study finds reducing carbs and replacing with fats leads to increased metabolism

Not surprising at all. Related article I posted this a couple days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18437218