Comment by assimpleaspossi
3 months ago
Are there any studies on these studies? There are so many of them--and they're issued multiple times of day on television "news"--that there has to be one.
3 months ago
Are there any studies on these studies? There are so many of them--and they're issued multiple times of day on television "news"--that there has to be one.
I systematically flag “diet” studies here. (And most medicine related, specially if not the study itself, but a random article with yellow title)
Some dietary studies are little better, some worse, but even the best, are very weak.
It’s known (from other studies, yes the irony) that people have no idea what they eat. Forget, don’t pay attention… so is difficult to draw conclusions. Also diet habits correlate to so many other habits, that is difficult to know what helps and what doesn’t.
Often is posted just a journalist view of it, not even the study (like this case) that is another red flag. Means that the article title is probably not so interesting.
Last but not least, being a forum of mainly CS nerds, you have to really weed through the comments. When speaking about law many start with “not a lawyer but” but seldom I see “not a doctor, but”. I’ve just seen too often people very opinionated about medicine topics of which they have no idea. Luckily is relatively easy to detect, but can be very misleading. The less the people know about something, the more sure they are they know it all. I need to state the obvious: never ever take medical advice at face value from HN.