For some reason (my hypothesis - people love boobs) this is more interesting than his other major research interests which include rehab for elderly people and psychometric effects of biathlonspic.twitter.com/4WtrJ91WWO
Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him
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For some reason (my hypothesis - people love boobs) this is more interesting than his other major research interests which include rehab for elderly people and psychometric effects of biathlonspic.twitter.com/4WtrJ91WWO
The basic idea is that this researcher has found that women who use bras have "saggier" breasts than women who don't, over time (16 years) Momentous stuff
France Info puts out a press release, and the story goes instantly viral Covered across the world, translated into multiple languages, put out in almost every form imaginablepic.twitter.com/3rhgMoNdz3
And this story is still being repeated word-for-word half a decade later Here's a piece from January this year that is basically indistinguishable from the media noise in 2013 https://culturacolectiva.com/technology/benefits-of-not-wearing-bra …
I read about this interesting factoid, and thought it sounded a bit weird For one thing, who's funding a 16-year long study into breast sagginess???
So, with my schoolboy French in hand, I went looking for the actual research I found nothing. No published research, no conference presentations, not even a whisper of a scientific study
The only reference in the academic literature that appears to exist is this presentation by a student of the original researcher on a descriptive study of 50 women asking about their experiences of wearing sports bras that found no negative effects http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/xslt/DB=2.1//SRCH?IKT=12&TRM=14617223X&COOKIE=U10178,Klecteurweb,I250,B341720009+,SY,NLECTEUR+WEBOPC,D2.1,E5977e3cb-13ef,A,H,R60.241.114.100,FY&COOKIE=U10178,Klecteurweb,I250,B341720009+,SY,NLECTEUR+WEBOPC,D2.1,E2c3d0d4d-104d,A,H,R203.32.142.58,FY …
And...that's it Even though this research has apparently been going on for more than 2 decades now, there is not a single published paper that I can find describing it Very oddpic.twitter.com/uHzDcYKgra
And if you go on the hyperlink-trail of references in media articles about this research, you basically end up back at France Info who don't reference any research at all
Which means that this amazing story - bras cause boob sagginess - that is repeated even today by major media publications, and believed by quite a large number of people, is based on...nothing (or at least the scientific equivalent of nothing)
The reality is that there's no evidence that bras cause breast sagging, but somehow articles are still being published arguing that they do
It's a wonderful insight into how easy it is to start a health myth, and the amazing longevity that such myths have in our collective consciousness
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