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Multivitamin, mineral supplement linked to less-severe illness symptoms

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Re: Multivitamin, mineral supplement linked to less-severe illness symptoms

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Please spare us from reports of studies with few subjects (n It's just p-hacking or random chance and a news outlet's way of generating clicks for itself. These findings are made public, and then almost always quietly disappear into the churn of other scientific ideas of dubious validity.

If only the follow-up, larger (n >> 50) study that later is conducted that reports negative results was as widely reported and disseminated.