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Are Body Temperature and Depression Linked? Science Says, Yes. (www.ucsf.edu)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I hate articles like this. Implying some sorta of causal relationship with any and all scientific papers that have a correlation between two properties. You can't write that the paper "suggests" lowering body temps would improve depression when the paper only finds a correlation between the two.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People with expensive well worn running shoes have better cardiovascular health. So let's give people well worn running shoes to improve their health.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I like this comparison because it makes me think of a company that is administering a medical trial type program to improve cardiovascular health — I'm imagining a "farm" type place, where undergrads are on treadmills, taking new, expensive running shoes and running in them until they're "well-worn". It's very silly, and I thank you for this mental image.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

It's obviously causation. That's why there are so many depressed people in Hawaii and so few in Alaska.

Wait ..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Aah, the mandatory "correlation is not causation" remark ;)