Xylitol (“birch sugar”) and cardiovascular risk. Higher blood xylitol levels were associated with a greater long-term risk of major cardiovascular events (an observational study cannot establish causality). In CLSA, over 6 years of follow-up, participants in the highest https://t.co/2Y1YiYG4Qr #Xylitol #HeartHealth #CardiovascularRisk #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.
A team of physicists say they have figured out the origin of causality. I've had a look at the paper. https://t.co/2Z2iOLiU6i #Causality #Physics #ScienceNews #Nospecificcountrycodescanbeidentifiedinthetweetprovided.
Steven Pinker (on Facebook, 2026-07-21): "It's depressing that 28 years after Judith Rich Harris's The Nurture Assumption, psychologists are conducting, and journalists credulously reporting, useless correlational studies of people's decades-old memories of childhood abuse & their adult relationships, presented as evidence for causality. No controls for (among other things) more neurotic adults spinning childhood memories as traumatic; abusive parents passing on genes for cantankerousness to their kids; more obstreperous children growing into more obstreperous adults. | "Childhood Trauma Echoes Through Romantic Relationships" on: https://nautil.us/childhood-trauma-echoes-through-romantic-relationships-1282554?fbclid=IwY2xjawTNaNBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEebNTspZUb5goBSQNUc88WHl6kifTyoMsL5mDFzbp3v2iED7J93NCQpNhi_ns_aem_6vbiuoU_4sTEMmGKLK0j2g <--
