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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • Personally, red wine gives me a headache and coffee makes me anxious. So I don’t care what these inconclusive studies say (positive or negative), for me personally both are bad (though I still do drink coffee). I think people should ignore these inconclusive studies and do self-experiments instead, until we have better data. Most people have a baseline level of being hyper-caffeinated and can’t imagine life without it. Life could be better or it could be worse, but people don’t care to experiment.

















  • The sample size was in the tens of thousands (39K total cases according to the original EUSEM article) so it would be extremely surprising if there were no real difference. You could easily say it’s within margin of error if there were only a few hundred cases examined, but we’re talking about tens of thousands here.

    Important to note though that the data only accounted for Canada and the US.

    Another important caveat is that we’re assuming the data collection process was not flawed or biased, which is maybe a legitimate concern. But it’s a separate issue entirely.