Posted on 07/06/2018 7:40:10 AM PDT by SMGFan
Washington (AFP) - A few years ago, two researchers took the 50 most-used ingredients in a cook book and studied how many had been linked with a cancer risk or benefit, based on a variety of studies published in scientific journals.
The result? Forty out of 50, including salt, flour, parsley and sugar. "Is everything we eat associated with cancer?" the researchers wondered in a 2013 article based on their findings.
Their investigation touched on a known but persistent problem in the research world: too few studies have large enough samples to support generalized conclusions.
But pressure on researchers, competition between journals and the media's insatiable appetite for new studies announcing revolutionary breakthroughs has meant such articles continue to be published.
"The majority of papers that get published, even in serious journals, are pretty sloppy," said John Ioannidis, professor of medicine at Stanford University, who specializes in the study of scientific studies.
This sworn enemy of bad research published a widely cited article in 2005 entitled: "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False."
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And that's how studies are done.
Did scientific studies tell them this?.......................
This sentence is false.
Someone please tell the climate change proselytizers about all those “climate studies” which are breathlessly reported and clung to by the Algore faithful.
To all the points made in this article add:
(i) intense pressure to support the “consensus”; and
(ii) unlimited future funding if you “get” the right result
... and you have “climate science”
Wait a moment - what if his study was one of the ones that was wrong?
I remember when they said bbq meat caused cancer.
Thats when I decided most of this was nonsense.
More studies on this need to be done. I'll start working on my thesis tonight. I'll play One Scotch, One Bourbon, And One Beer in the background for mood music.
To be statistically significant, we would need at least 6000 years of accurate climate data for a 4 billion year old planet.
Nothing new.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7915-most-scientific-papers-are-probably-wrong/
https://reason.com/archives/2016/08/26/most-scientific-results-are-wrong-or-use
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-most-published-scientific-research-is-wrong-2013-10
Follow the money, as always!
Study is as good as the money available to fund it.
Hmm wonder why this guy just a “researcher” and not one of those “experts”. Kinda bafflin’ right there.
And yet the science of globull warming is settled, right Obummer?
Unfortunately life or living is also associated with cancer. Not sure self denial is amswer. Moderation and self discipline, maybe. It seems to me health nuts just as apt,to get it as others, though smokers more. As infants are sometimes born with cancer or have shortly after birth, I wonder if it’s more what your ancestors ate and were exposed to, maybe as children or as unborn, that after passed on in the genes. I was talking with a woman a few years ago and she told me all of her siblings, she had several, and herself had had cancer at one time or another. She said it seemed to run in her family, including her parents aunts, uncles and cousins.
"Is everything we eat associated with cancer?" the researchers wondered in a 2013 article based on their findings.
Thanks SMGFan.
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I know they are fake, and get very angry at the mediabots who take them seriously. My favorite, and the one that set me off for ever, is the one about nightlights and myopia. “study” showed a correlation between kids with nightlights in their bedrooms, and near sightedness.
Mediabots suggested we outlaw nightlights to prevent myopia! Completely 100% wrong! The kids don’t f****** see well! They need some light at night!!!!!
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