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groby_blast Thursday at 8:50 PM1 replyview on HN

I mean... this one's actually a pretty good paper, but we also had Linus Pauling pontificate on Vitamin C, so maybe we should cool it with the appeals to Nobel authority alone.


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sreanlast Friday at 12:33 PM

He did have a very long life, so there's that.

It's not easy to separate cause and effect from direct and strong correlations that we experience.

The job of a scientist is not to give up on a hunch with a flippant "correlation is not causation" but pursue such hunches to prove it this way or that (that is, prove it or disprove it). It's human to lean a certain way about what could be true.