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Correlation

So the risk of getting both dementia and hearing loss are both related to aging. But the risk of getting either is not related to the other. 

Knowing that most old people lose a little hearing these lying fuckers at Hearing Australia are implying a false causation to fool the dumb fuckers into the solution, which is either ‘don’t get old’ or ‘get your hearing aids so you won’t get dementia’.

The advertisers need evidence that hearing intervention changes the outcome, ideally from randomized controlled trials or equally compelling causal evidence. Of course they don’t have that.

I don’t why I bother sometimes; if our society is that gullible then it’s on them.

Ironically, people who accept the implied causal story without asking any questions are the people that are more likely to get dementia, having not used their noggins all their lives. That causation has actually been shown.