Love this story - unpublished research - presented at a conference - no actual information on the study at all - unclear funding - no information on randomization, blinding etc - n=20 (!) Quorn>milk? How could we possibly know???https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7208785/Protein-fungi-used-Quorn-builds-muscle-twice-fast-whey.html …
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Replying to @GidMK
Sorry hang on I'm still stuck on the headline/dek... It's better at muscle building because it contains more than just protein? The whole point of whey protein powder is it's just the protein. Protein plus other stuff already has a name, it is FOOD
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This is true, and it's also even worse because the press release from the University of Exeter claims that the supplement was purely mycoprotein so I don't know who to believe http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_723771_en.html …pic.twitter.com/c3ukQAxGXh
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Replying to @BethSkw
This is why I always tell journos to never report on unpublished research if at all possible!
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Replying to @GidMK
Yep!! I hate when a story makes the rounds based on a poster or worse yet somebody's brief mention in a talk. Everyone now feels like they have to cover, but there's no there there. Nothing to even send to an outside comment.
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I also think it's irresponsible to send out press releases when there's no paper to provide detail or allow for outside comment. But everybody does it.
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I agree wholeheartedly. Every year at the annual diabetes conference in Europe they put out a dozen press releases on preliminary research which all overhype the evidence and make me cringe. Very bad idea imo
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