For example, I am not fond of alternative medicine. This is a problem, given that it's a topic of interest to me
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It comes from a childhood of being dragged from homeopath to psychic healer whenever I was sick, rather than a doctor I got a bit miffed
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So whenever a study comes out that promotes alternative medicine, I have a tendency to pick it apart with wild vigor This is unfair
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The thing is, I know about this bias. I can take steps to prevent it: slow down when I read alt med studies, give them the benefit of the doubt
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The harder biases are the ones you aren't aware of. Took me a while to realize that I think panaceas are all nonsense, and take steps to correct for that one
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The point is, if you want to be a good scientist, or even just a better person, having a really good think about your own biases is pretty damn important
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Just to reiterate: EVERYONE HAS BIASES YES, EVEN YOU
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Low-carb people trash the Lancet study showing carbs to be good because of their biases. It's a reasonable piece of research that is only getting flamed because some people really don't like carbs
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Replying to @GidMK
IT is also getting criticised because there are serious doubts about the validity of some of its conclusions. It isn't "only" flamed because some people don't like it. Given how bad the science is in most nutritional epidemiology this isn't unusual.
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There is a vast gulf between disagreeing with the conclusions of a study and, as I have now seen dozens of times, accusing them of fraud/incompetence
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In fact, the study did not claim and "definitive" conclusions. The conclusions put forth in the study itself, as opposed to the media coverage, were appropriately limited and mostly addressed the observed associations and their interpretation
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