Comment by Alacart
4 hours ago
How do you square that with this quote in the article?
"The data showed that the age-adjusted incidence rate fell from 55.2 per 100,000 in 2000 to 36.7 in 2022, then rose to 38.3 in 2023."
Were more people fat back in 2000? Was the food worse? Though I don’t really doubt that the food industry and trends like you mentioned do contribute, that stat also seems to directly contradict the hypothesis.
You and orangecat are using a false binary
That’s not how science works
Show me correlating graphs to the rise in colorectal cancer. There has to be a meta-analysis about this, my money is on food being a major contributing factor
It's milk consumption:
https://tylervigen.com/spurious/custom_correlation/757_new-c...
No wait it's GMO use in corn grown in Texas:
https://tylervigen.com/spurious/custom_correlation/758_new-c...
No wait it's the popularity of the first name Devon:
https://tylervigen.com/spurious/custom_correlation/759_new-c...
No wait it's the number of postal service machine operators in Texas:
https://tylervigen.com/spurious/custom_correlation/760_new-c...
Pretty certain this isn't how science works either. Be careful mistaking correlation for causation, and in relying on intuitive hunches.
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> my money is on food being a major contributing factor
That's not how science works either.