The study question was decided upon a priori and the relevant statistical tests were applied accordingly, not testing for every conceivable association.
And there was never any conceivable connection between the allegations he was making and product integrity".
Interpreting results for thousands of conceivable associations is a daunting task (Greenland 2008; Patel and Ioannidis 2014).
Because all participants in our cohort were current employees of the same company and were not malnourished, it is hardly conceivable that the association between lower serum creatinine and the risk of diabetes is due to any dietary deficiency.
It is conceivable that the association between PMD change and breast cancer survival in patients treated with tamoxifen could be explained by differences in compliance or in this case, an inherited response to treatment (for example due to genetic variation in the CYP2D6 gene).
Second, it is also conceivable that the bidirectional association between depression and diabetes in adulthood is a consequence of early factors, such as low birth weight and childhood adversity, which predispose individuals to both depression (14) and obesity/type 2 diabetes (15, 16).
It is conceivable that an essentially similar association between calcium and apatite binding proteins and mineral phases, with the resultant formation of spherical nanoparticles, is required for biomineralization.
It is conceivable that part of the association between menarche timing and type 2 diabetes risk is explained by increased adiposity.
It is conceivable that the earlier reported association between gender and long-term pain may have been a consequence of the fact that more women were in the higher age strata [ 47].
If we assume that such nutrients have beneficial or protective effects on cognitive development (Koletzko et al. 2008), it is conceivable that the associations between prenatal PCB exposure and cognitive outcomes are stronger than what was actually found in fish-eating populations.
It is conceivable that sleep duration partially mediated the association between trouble falling asleep or getting back to sleep, or very restless sleep and risk of CRC because sleep duration was tightly associated with these factors in our study.
