>>13770901They usually list any observed effect even if they aren't sure their product caused it.
If you consider the rates of depression in the general population then you would expect "suicidal thoughts" to show up in any reasonably sized study.
If you consider the subset of the population that willingly subjects itself to testing in exchange for money, I'd bet the depression rate is higher than in the general population.
There's little to no cost for them to list it (notice they already soften it from "suicide" or "suicide attempts" to "suicidal thoughts") but there is potentially a huge legal cost if they don't.
Even if their product doesn't cause it, it is up to the unpredictable legal system to decide in the case it isn't listed.
Also, they don't know what subset of the afflicted population will be using their product so any dissimilarity from the test population may (falsely) indicate there is an effect (willingness in the afflicted population to use the product may be correlated with suffering/despair/depression/insecurity/gullibility/poverty and they don't know ahead of time how their marketing strategy will bias the sample of people who choose to use the product).
Most of the time they are just covering their own ass.
