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compared 31 healthy adults who regularly consume coffee with 31 non-coffee drinkers.

Double whammy: small sample size and selection bias

Was super excited to dive into the article... And then saw that, uh come oooon!


I want to believe this, though:

Coffee consumers presented lower levels of inflammatory markers and higher levels of anti-inflammatory molecules. During the period of abstinence, some markers of inflammation increased, suggesting that coffee may have a protective effect in this area.
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From what I’ve seen, there is quite a bit of pro-coffee evidence and a lot of the anti-coffee findings from decades ago didn’t even account for the enormous amounts of sweeteners and creamers that people were adding to it.

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Unbelievable. Its like science is broken or something

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One of my grand ambitions is to help fix it.

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before or after taking charge of The Economist?

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It depends which turns out to be easier. One will be a stepping stone to the other though.

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speaking of which... the algos gave me this today. Hashtag bad predictions/bad models

(the numbers in this tweet aren't right, but the direction is)

how's that going?

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About as well as one could reasonably expect

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orange mocha Frappuccino!!

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