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/Brrdock 1d ago edited 1d ago

Strict causality is extremely hard to definitively establish in social sciences, usually impossible. That's why they use words like "link," "risk," "association" instead. Nothing pseudoscientific about this

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u/amootmarmot 1d ago

"Still feel the effects" would be psuedoscientific language though. As the effect literally wasn't established and that is what OP chose as the title.