On flawed @TheLancet study alleging low-carb shortens life: 1. low-carb group was (hopelessly) confounded by higher rates of smoking, diabetes, obesity 2. study contradicted by 70+ trials--far more rigorous data--all of which show improved health on low carb 1/2
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Replying to @bigfatsurprise @TheLancet1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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Lol that's actually hilarious There are certainly possible criticisms, but since they used rigorous measures of diabetes/smoking/obesity and controlled for these in their analysis, this is not one of them Pure tribalism!pic.twitter.com/kuzsa2qeZI
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"adjustments". Or magic, as more rigorous epistemologists would admit. Mate, before you bloat yourself up like a smug pufferfish, note that most of us ignore ALL crappy epidemiology, whether it confirms our biases or not.
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Replying to @bokkiedog @drvyom and
Lol nope, that's total nonsense. It is statistical manipulation, not magic
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Anyway, your discounting of those who have revealed the problems with the substance and PR-idiocy of this latest debasement of science as "pure tribalism" reveals your tawdry cards too clearly.
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Replying to @bokkiedog @drvyom and
Uh, she made several factually incorrect statements that you are defending with total gibberish, it is hardly to your credit that all you can do is babble insults at me rather than try to understand the basics of statistical adjustment for confounding variables
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There's basic adjustment for confounding variables, and there's statistical voodoo atop the GIGO dumpster fire this study's "dataset" represents. There's no distilling an inherent, platonic truth-signal from pure entropy.
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What utter nonsense. They were Cos proportional hazard models with cubic splines, that is fairly standard in such epidemiological research
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Replying to @GidMK @bokkiedog and
Here is the study, I'd recommend the "methods" section it's very enlightening https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(18)30135-X/fulltext#seccestitle80 …
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I read it on the tube. I burst out laughing. Literally.
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