A multivariate Swedish national twin-sibling study in women of major depression, anxiety disorder, [FM], and [IBS] 2025 Kendler, Rosmalen et al

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I struggle to understand this part. It seems to me like this kind of approach would run into massive issues with the differences between correlation and causation? Is that a correct interpretation?

It also screams of good (although they are sometimes far from it) intentions paving a very hard way into a hellish place for many.

A little knowledge doing enormous harm. It makes me think of recent events I have seen of someone quoting wrong statistics, and a journalist writing in an article something like "although the numbers are all fake, the general sentiment they represent is true". The general sentiment they represented was not even true. This is all very similar. This discipline is needed, but right now it's an unholy mess that likely does far more harm than good because there is so much intransigence, turf wars, ideological positions, biases and so many more problems.

One of so many reasons why we can't be caught in this. They're a mess. They shouldn't be making any firm assertions about anyone, and yet everything about us derives from just that: assumptions, beliefs and other nonsense.

Horrible. Just completely horrible.