On a par with the valid statistic that tomatoes are fatal, as most people who die have eaten tomatoes or tomato products shortly before death. Statistics are powerful tools but as the saying goes, you can prove almost anything with stats.
Pickles are just as bad, sixty years ago when I was in the sixth grade I knew a lot of people in their fifties and sixties who ate pickles every day. Would you believe that every single one of them is dead now?