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Cake day: September 19th, 2023

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  • It’s a 9-person study. This is like the articles about bone density loss for these drugs (same as losing significant weight any other way, mitigated by exercise).

    These articles blow up and are widely shared due to our thirst for comeuppance, that people taking a “shortcut” will end up getting cancer someday and look like fools.

    I believe these drugs aren’t without risk and these links should be studied, but it would have to be orders of magnitude more prevalent to offset the good it’s done.

    I find the kneejerk cravings for scary downsides to be on par with Big Tobacco vape messaging or vaccine skepticism, and, at its root, I think it has some Puritanical holier-than-thou elements since the fatties didn’t suffer or risk enough.

    Edit: This isn’t directed at the scientists, rather the concern trolling on social media.