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Epidemiological studies are full of flaws and considerable limitations – not the least of which being that they often make inappropriate causal claims based on purely correlational data. Nevertheless, as long as we remain aware of their shortcomings, such studies can serve the purpose of generating new hypotheses or providing results which might corroborate (not prove) existing theories regarding the relationships between two variables.
Such is the cautious mindset we must adopt in considering a recent paper by Cavaillès et al.1 on the…