Paul Saladino· MD
i hope we will do actual interventional studies to test the connections between pcbs or heavy metals and melanoma
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i hope we will do actual interventional studies to test the connections between pcbs or heavy metals and melanoma
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even that did you see the recent again this is observational study there was recently an observational study came out there was so much cognitive dissonance around this and it showed that fish consumption was associated with increased rates of melanoma and it was just like of course it is yeah it's observational we can't draw a causative inference but pcbs heavy metals microplastics like this is not a good thing
so this finding was really taken with a lot of disbelief and incredulity by the nutrition community was widely ignored because everyone knows that fish is so healthy because red meat is so bad for you and i'm just laughing in the background thinking you guys actually need to realize that this fish is not good for humans and this is a good indication of this but i wish that most of this epidemiology were then followed up with interventional studies