The Virta study is a fascinating case study of cognitive dissonance People who will happily tear apart any disagreeing research with minor methodological flaws cheerfully accept an unblinded, industry-funded study with an inadequate placebo as proof positive https://twitter.com/MikeCarrato/status/1025900907530207233 …
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The thing is, if the study had been a pilot to make way for a larger, better-controlled RCT, it would be excellent That is not at all how it is presented
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Instead, it is marketed as a fait accompli: this poorly-controlled, bias-ridden piece of research - NOT AT ALL A PROBLEM FOR A PILOT - is put forward as definitive evidence for an extremely costly private enterprise
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In fact, when I tell the endocrinologists I work with about Virta - that people went into remission in a $4,000+ a year program - they blink and say "so what?"
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Virta is nothing new, in fact it has been done many times before End rant.
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