Everyone is reporting this study as if it shows efficacy for a specific diet. Nothing could be further from the truth
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And this conclusion is...stunning. To paraphrase: "If a big number of future studies are done that agree with ours, we can conclude that this study was right"pic.twitter.com/VrBeEuOegv
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That's like me saying that you should use a pill because eventually we'll find that it works As I said, stunning
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If THE AUTHORS OF THE STUDY didn't draw a single firm conclusion from their research - which they didn't - why would anyone else?
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And this quote from the
@nytimes sums it up for me Maybe the control seems to good to be true...because it is?pic.twitter.com/50sGkrgXNH
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Essentially, this was an online survey that proved nothing whatsoever, and had results that were almost certainly too good to be true
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And yet, every single news source quoted the authors who said that this diet demonstrated "exceptional" glucose control
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The only thing "exceptional" about this research is that people have read more into it than "interesting but needs more research"
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