Oral sex is associated with reduced incidence of recurrent miscarriage

Isn’t that just a correlation that they discovered? Aren’t there thousands of hidden variables that could explain this correlation without a causal relationship?

Isn’t that a pretty weak p Value ?

I just read the abstract and might have mis-interpreted it. But on a first glance this looks like an April fools joke.

Re: Oral sex is associated with reduced incidence of recurrent miscarriage

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Post by aristophenes » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 6:02 PM UTC

While this is a very interesting finding, I suspect p-hacking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging

Imagine the awkwardness when someone tries to get funding to confirm.

Re: Oral sex is associated with reduced incidence of recurrent miscarriage

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Post by vbuwivbiu » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 6:04 PM UTC

aristophenes wrote: post #6

While this is a very interesting finding, I suspect p-hacking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging Imagine the awkwardness when someone tries to get funding to confirm.

doesn't matter - now that this has been reported it is fact

Re: Oral sex is associated with reduced incidence of recurrent miscarriage

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Post by bitadder » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 6:04 PM UTC

aristophenes wrote: post #6

While this is a very interesting finding, I suspect p-hacking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging Imagine the awkwardness when someone tries to get funding to confirm.

My friend and I were talking about the same thing.

"association became weaker" with a p=.21

Re: Oral sex is associated with reduced incidence of recurrent miscarriage

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Post by 1000units » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 6:05 PM UTC

salex89 wrote: post #2

And increases chance of oral cancer...

Why is this downvoted? This is both absolutely true and incredibly important. It's literally a matter of life and death.

edit: If you are downvoting this as an emotional reaction to something you haven't considered before, please consider calming down and examining the evidence with a rational mind. Your health and that of the people you love are at risk.

Re: Oral sex is associated with reduced incidence of recurrent miscarriage

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Post by throwawaysex » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 6:07 PM UTC

> via seminal fluid to oral mucosa

To these people, 'oral sex' seems to mean implicitly mean a female giving and a male receiving. Typical.