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Baseline Risk and Misleading Health Headlines
How health headlines can be technically true but misleading when baseline risk, relative risk, and absolute risk are left out.
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By Devin Teichrow. Published April 14, 2025.
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How health headlines can be technically true but misleading when baseline risk, relative risk, and absolute risk are left out.
A few years ago, there was a health headline that went viral:
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