“Drinking soda is probably linked to other poor dietary choices.”
Very good point. This is just an association study, and a retrospective one at that:
“The research was a retrospective study, which relied on participants to recall their diet habits.”
I’m very suspicious of association studies because they don’t really address whether the things that are associated are actually related to each other in a cause and effect manner. For example, “100% of people who died had eaten carbohydrates within 3 months of death.”
Probably, but a least the diet soda drinkers have half a brain