So much for journalistic embargoes, but then again I guess it is almost (or already?) Thursday in India. The last I heard, this recent study that will be published shortly in the British Medical Journal was embargoed until Thursday… meaning that journalists aren’t supposed to talk about it until then. Which I won’t. But I will give you the link if you want to read the Hindustan Times’ reporting of it. And then we can talk about the study really does and does not say or mean.
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