Andrew Huberman· PhD
the estrogen only arm kept going because it's randomized so presumably the average age for the other group is roughly 61 as well they were match so in their 60s as well so they call a press conference at the Watergate Hotel the Watergate Hotel announce the findings they hadn't even published the data yet no one had had a chance to read it and these the head researchers called this press conference and say estrogen causes breast cancer exogenous estrogen from these yeah yes and they said it's a 25% increased risk but the absolute risk was like 8% per year but that didn't get that that's not a headline thing so on every like ABC NBC CBS all the morning shows Nightly News every major magazine it was the number one medical news story of 2002 that that estrogen was bad and it caused cancer and da d da the estrogen only arm kept going and they found after a couple more years a slightly increased risk of stroke so they stopped the study