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MINI TUTORIAL: How to look at risk ratios & deal with disinformation: Saturated Fats & Nina Teicholz

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Ms. Nina Ticholz backed up her saturated fat propaganda with a major paper showing that saturated fats don't cause cardiovascular disease that was "ignored by mainstream media". Turns out the paper shows the opposite of what she claims. I show how to read risk ratios, confidence intervals, etc. Note on Terminology: by "odds" I am using the betting/gambling, not the epidemiological terminology, here the CDF/Survival Function. ...more
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MINI TUTORIAL: How to look at risk ratios & deal with disinformation: Saturated Fats & Nina Teicholz
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2022Dec 7
Ms. Nina Ticholz backed up her saturated fat propaganda with a major paper showing that saturated fats don't cause cardiovascular disease that was "ignored by mainstream media". Turns out the paper shows the opposite of what she claims. I show how to read risk ratios, confidence intervals, etc. Note on Terminology: by "odds" I am using the betting/gambling, not the epidemiological terminology, here the CDF/Survival Function.

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