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I came looking for your comment. Someone applying some common sense to the “research”. Yet, the post has >400 points.

Feels like these days anybody can post a paper and get uncountable widespread with 0 backings for their research.

In nutrition this happens A LOT. Things like: “meat causes cancer in 70% of the population”. And then you read the paper and they did the study on 80 people between 60-90 years old. There’s just no scientific/statistic rigurosity.




you can make something up at the speed of thought. refuting it takes time and effort. peer-reviewing even longer.




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