“Scientists discover new *CAUSE* of cancer that hits 10,000 Britons every year - diet mistake could be to blame”
“US researchers have now discovered that patients with leukemia — an aggressive form of blood cancer — have higher levels of one specific bacteria in their guts.”
correlation is NOT causation ...
yet another click-baity article from the Daily Mail ...
Agreed....but in the medical field, correlation is part of the ‘science’. Almost everything is based on statistical outcome as we just don’t understand how it all works.
Every drug that goes through a ‘double blind trial’ is purely about generating statistics of outcomes. If there’s a strong statistical correlation it’ll be judged on those merits.
Butter is bad...oops, butter is good, ...eggs are bad, oops...