re: Intermittent fasting linked to 91% increase in risk of death from heart disease, study.

The Dark Horse podcast did a full breakdown of this research paper and the accompanying headlines it generated

Cliff notes are…
1) The research done in the original paper was pitifully constructed
2) The news distorted the already pitiful research into an even more extreme headline with absolutely no connection to the already pitiful research



Essentially, the news scoured every abstract in the American Medical Association’s annual conference, found the most extreme conclusion any of those hundreds of various papers, and hyperbolized it even further (for those that don’t know, you have to pay to present at these conferences, so they virtually never turn down a submitted paper, no matter how flimsy it is… so there is always some crazy, fringe shite presented at every conference like this)

Our media is fricking pitiful. It’s pure clickbait