Once again the media jump from correlational findings to make causal claims. Here is the headline in The Washington Post:
“Too much TV could raise the risk of Alzheimer’s, study suggests”
At least they qualified it with the words “study suggests.”
Too much TV does not cause Alzheimer’s disease (but it does correlate with it)
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What about too much Facebook?