Correlation is often misreported as causation in media studies, leading to public misunderstanding of health research, particularly regarding variables like TMAO.

“correlation is not causation but it's always reported in the media as causation when it's actually correlation so it's just people don't understand the studies they're looking at physicians who are biased and trying to create the tmao story to make red meat look bad or ignoring the fact that there's more tmao in fish than is formed by the creatine or excuse me the carnitine and choline in red meat and also that some vegetables have tmao and also that none of it is actual interventional evidence it's all correlation so we're badly misled you guys this happens over and over and over”