Influencers vs Epidemiologists: Money & Fame vs Science

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Your favorite influencers are getting rich by spreading misinformation. Viva Longevity finds great scientists who are too busy doing science to be social media stars, and we help them tell their stories. VIDEOS: Andrew Huberman is Lying to You https://youtu.be/0thkoCYhJnc Follow the Money: Peter Attia https://youtu.be/rWY4vvvVNUo Nina Teicholz - 'Why Nutrition Advice is So Wrong' https://youtu.be/tMGYZvaatSQ Causal Inference Seminar: Peter Tennant https://youtu.be/SbrX3YEMj_0 Peter Attia's Longevity Book Outlive: The BEST or WORST longevity book? https://youtu.be/VWeg3l3RBIM BOOKS: Modern Epidemiology Fourth Edition by Tim Lash https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Epidemiology-Kenneth-Rothman/dp/1451193289 The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl https://www.amazon.com/The-Book-of-Why-audiobook/dp/B07CYJ4G2L/ref=sr_1_1 Nutritional Epidemiology 3rd Edition by Walter Willett https://www.amazon.com/Nutritional-Epidemiology-Monographs-Biostatistics/dp/0199754039/ref=sr_1_1 Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction by Rodolfo Saracci https://www.amazon.com/Epidemiology-A-Very-Short-Introduction/dp/B096HD4Y8M/ref=sr_1_1 Mendelian Randomization: Methods for Causal Inference Using Genetic Variants https://www.amazon.com/Mendelian-Randomization-Inference-Interdisciplinary-Statistics-ebook/dp/B0933LJKRR/ref=sr_1_1 PAPERS: Epidemiology Faces Its Limits: The search for subtle links between diet, lifestyle, or environmental factors and disease is an unending source of fear—but often yields little certainty, by Gary Taubes https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.7618077 Epidemiology beyond its limits by Tim Lash https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn3328 Dietary protein intake in midlife in relation to healthy aging – results from the prospective Nurses’ Health Study cohort https://ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S0002-9165(23)66282-3/fulltext Comparative ecologic relationships of saturated fat, sucrose, food groups, and a Mediterranean food pattern score to 50-year coronary heart disease mortality rates among 16 cohorts of the Seven Countries Study https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-018-0183-1 The challenges of control groups, placebos and blinding in clinical trials of dietary interventions https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-nutrition-society/article/challenges-of-control-groups-placebos-and-blinding-in-clinical-trials-of-dietary-interventions/CD0D06FBF583C0E1DE908002A4133335 Review: Evolution of evidence on PFOA and health following the assessments of the C8 Science Panel https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020320808 Perfluorooctanoic acid and chronic kidney disease: Longitudinal analysis of a Mid-Ohio Valley community https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935115301468?via%3Dihub DIETARY GUIDELINES SPREADSHEET Open for comments: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n7aImvY9nLckZzhXyCBKXeD9-0ap-4ipFI7eHfwEaW8/edit?usp=sharing 0:00 Modern epidemiology 2:27 Environmental vs nutritional epidemiology 9:04 The power of big data 11:36 Gary Taubes' Science article 16:16 Dr. Tobias on Nina Teicholz 18:08 Correlation is not causation? 21:42 Hierarchy of evidence 26:23 Got a big effect size? Trans fats. 29:43 The right way to infer cause 32:54 How to spot misinformation 33:57 Food frequency questionnaires 37:26 The food pyramid 38:52 Rich influencers