re: #1 Bob Levin

The problem with so many of these news stories about medical research is that they really don’t tell the story, because the research in many cases is an adventure in statistics and the reporter/writer are way over their head.

Furthermore, the nature of so much research into medicine is quite compromised compared to most sciences. Given that testing is highly limited (due to ethical concerns) it is often hard to isolate variables.

The story as copied for example ignores the other reasons one might want to supplement their diet with the types of fats found in fish oil, for example for brain or nervous system health.

We are a system of many different chemical reactions happening in parallel, millions - beware of any news story that tries to take a very complicated topic and make it too simple.