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metadat on Jan 29, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

The quote at the end confuses me:

> In 1807 William Wordsworth wrote, "The child is father of the man." With respect to prostate cancer, though, sexual activity in adolescence may be a predictor of risk in adulthood.

Wouldn't adolescent sexual activity be the form-determining-factor (aka "father") of the prostate cancer risk statistical profile in adulthood?

How is this different from the last sentence being analogous to the quote?

Thanks in advance for humoring me.

BirAdam on Jan 30, 2023 [–]

I had the same thought, and I think this is just a lack of good editing before publication.

fisxo on Jan 30, 2023 | [–]

Between that and the repeated paragraph about the Australian study, this is a rather sloppily written article.

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