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The “attenuated” in this case means “weakened the case for”.
Or, in other words, we found a correlation without finding any causation.
Moreover, actual conclusion of the paper: “Common vaccines were not associated with a decreased risk of dementia. Unmeasured confounding and detection bias likely accounted for the observed increased risk.”
For example, in Python you can’t avoid talking about the Python object model, and that implies you also can’t actually express anything in Python outside the Python object model.
And, fundamentally, you can’t — even `object` is an `object` — unless you stop expressing yourself in Python.
If you think about it to any great degree what you’re asking is should Two Face’s coin should be held responsible for which face it lands on?
Oh, and trying to get Epstein out of the news before Melania throws him under the bus.