My most recent headache is fact-checking Dr. Jason Fung's blogs, because it's such a minefield but it seems so legitimate it's scary
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For example this blog presents the argument that all weight loss by dietary recommendations is useless, and then cites this graph Notice what's wrong here?pic.twitter.com/j43Q175dc5
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If you picked up that there does seem to be a statistically significant difference between the two groups at every time-point, you're right! The study itself demonstrated small but clinically significant IMPROVEMENTS for the low-fat grouppic.twitter.com/bnUiWxgDcR
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This was mostly because the control group gained weight on average, but it's still a really important and significant finding that COMPLETELY CONTRADICTS Dr. Fung's argumentpic.twitter.com/ecRUpx1v2Y
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This is just one of many, it's hard to read these without yelling at the computer screen. Not sure what's happening here, but the piece seems to misinterpret or simply get things wrong quite a lot of the time
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The fact that the piece ends with a call to buy Dr. Fung's book seems to also be a bit...problematic to mepic.twitter.com/CMduouOU8K
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Replying to @GidMK
I'm blocked for some reason, which is probably a blessing.
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You might science all over the inconsistencies, which would be a problem
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