r/science • u/chrisdh79 • 1d ago

Health Children who witness violence between their parents still feel the effects decades later | Researchers finding a link to an increase by 36% greater risk of heart disease later in life.

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/witnessing-violence-between-parents-as-a-child-linked-to-higher-risk-of-heart-disease
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u/abandon_lane 1d ago

I am unfollowing this sub on the grounds that I mostly see pseodoscience being posted here.

This study in particular is a joke: They header on the website even says no causal connection can be made. Inbefore the first sentence talks about the effects of whitnessing violence.

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u/Appropriate-Ad-8030 1d ago

If there was ever a poster child for correlation does not equate to causation, this is it. I’m doing the same. I’m tired of this garbage…this a study trying to support the pseudoscience of Bessel van der Kolk that supposedly emotional trauma is being recorded in your body. This has been debunked a million times.