Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions. Agreeing that something happens says nothing about whether it happens enough to act on.

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about. A precise question gets a precise answer; a general one gets everybody’s favourite anecdote.

KevinCompounds said:

It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about.

Same pattern here, and in the same order.

KevinCompounds said:

It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about.

Coming at KevinCompounds’s question from a different direction. Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third retelling.

Moderator note: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful.