Wondering if it's a true mutton chop... aren't mutton chops supposed to be the full width of the beard--this is kind of like a fancy extended sideburn

Right, the authors kept mentioning that it had the potential for health consequences, but I want to see the data that people who never change their masks are more likely to get ill.

Yes! Their image was intentionally crafted to be common gay masculine archetypes, but it completely went over the public's head who saw them as just traditional masculine iconography.

Because the Village People's image was intentionally crafted to be common gay masculine archetypes that were very well known to gays (e.g., leather sex pigs like Mr. Slave), but it completely went over the public's head who saw them as just traditional masculine iconography.

What's new is right there in the article:

“While previous studies have shown multiple pregnancies and using the oral contraceptive pill can reduce the risk of endometrial cancer, this is the first study that used genetics to study multiple risk factors at once.”

We may be better able to intervene in the spread, whereas the education of the populace is intractable.

So their conclusion is that public health experts should "better monitor the online environment" but isn't it on the app to prevent the dissemination of this information in the first place? Or is it so that public health professionals can be generally aware of the types of misinformation that exist out there?

That's fair. They did find elevated levels of ALP in the CBD group, which apparently is a type of liver enzyme. But they say it was clinically insignificant because there was not an elevation of other liver enzymes, which would have been better evidence of liver injury.

Yeah that's what I mean, that they maybe would not have published it, if it was counterproductive to their agenda.

I'm so used to seeing "the authors declare no conflicts of interest" that this was interesting:

"SB, SY, AB, LH, DW, AH, KP, PW, and DL are employees of Mars Petcare, a manufacturer of pet food and provider of veterinary services."

Not that working for a pet food manufacturer would skew the results, but it certainly raises an eyebrow. If they instead found that CBD had adverse effects, would they have swept these findings under the rug?

Your analogy is better thanks!

Interesting. Does this mean the product labels that say "no parabens" are as helpful as "non-GMO"?

Interesting possibility but definitely needs more work. They faced some COVID challenges. Their control group wasn't even a matched sample of other Japanese children, but rather a historical sample of what appears to be data collected from American children. There may be reasons, other than participating in Mahjong, that led the Japanese children to have higher IQs relative to the American control data (e.g., cohort effects, time of data collection, cultural differences, etc.).