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You could also say that more civilized locations have better doctors capable of diagnosing ADHD.
You could also say that more civilized locations have better doctors capable of diagnosing ADHD.
I'm surprised the authors of the study didn't check proximity to cell towers/power lines or some such thing.
After reading the title and the paper's abstract, this seems to me like just one more instance of the many, many statistics that are strongly correlated with overall economic development of a society, and hence strongly correlated with each other without any causal link. In this case, the relevant factors would be "water fluoridation prevalence" and "capacity of doctors to diagnose ADHD", which are both almost certai…
It is naive postulation to dismiss the paper for not addressing a variable, when you have not even read the paper to know whether they addressed the variable. Further, your cursory read of the abstract somehow missed the clause "after controlling for socioeconomic status"
This article might hold up, but my past experience with statistics in medical papers does not give me great hope. For a while, my job was to review the math in interesting papers (well, interesting to who ever flagged it) from medical journals. In the three years that I did this, I encountered exactly zero that didn't commit some grave statistical sin.
And this is why I only drink rain water and pure grain alcohol... to ensure the purity of my precious bodily fluids...
Hearsay/conspiracy theory... but I heard that fluoride doesn't help your teeth and that a general increase in hygiene occurred the same time that fluoride. I also heard that it is a byproduct of processing aluminium and they coaxed the government to put it into water rather than disposing of it responsibly.
The only topic that gets worse comments than science on HN is gender issues.
Edit: and killed by mods. From +25 at the top to the bottom