# Mouth Science Digest
> Headlines about the mouth microbiome move fast. A guide to reading study news, spotting overreach and following reliable summaries.

## Guides
- [Headline vs Study](https://oral-microbiome-research-news.pages.dev/headline-vs-study/): A headline is a summary written to attract readers, while a study is a narrow experiment with limits the headline usually drops.
- [Animal Studies and the Mouth](https://oral-microbiome-research-news.pages.dev/animal-studies-mouth/): Animal studies are useful for testing ideas that cannot ethically be tried in people, but a mouth is not a mouse's mouth.
- [Correlation vs Causation](https://oral-microbiome-research-news.pages.dev/correlation-vs-causation/): Correlation vs causation is the difference between two things appearing together and one actually producing the other.
- [Reliable Science Summaries](https://oral-microbiome-research-news.pages.dev/reliable-science-summaries/): Reliable science summaries name the study, say who was studied, separate what was measured from what it might mean, and admit what is unknown.
- [How to Follow Research Casually](https://oral-microbiome-research-news.pages.dev/how-to-follow-research/): You can follow oral microbiome research casually with a few trusted sources, a little time each month and a habit of asking what a finding really shows.

## About
- [About Mouth Science Digest](https://oral-microbiome-research-news.pages.dev/about/): not medical advice, how the site is funded and how guides are made

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