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mmccarthy in reply to @russmeyer

I really wish they'd not use quotes such as this:

"Over the course of the study, the 263,450 subjects who were under review had a 41 per cent lower chance of death than those who didn’t."

Are bicycles the secret to immortality?

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mashton in reply to @mmccarthy

Are bicycles the secret to immortality?

The author responded to this exact criticism in the comments, saying that the reduction in chance if death was over the 5 year study, not in perpetuity.

A redraft might be a good idea, but I think the sentence holds up.

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mmccarthy in reply to @mashton

Indeed I hadn't believed that that was the message that the journalist was trying to get across, but the sentence is quite vague.

Reading it back now with that clarification makes a lot more sense. But like you said, might be worth a quick redraft.

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