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Eating breakfast doesn’t make teens lose weight « Science Notes — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:18:53 +0000

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By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:08:14 +0000

We officially live in a post truth world- the intellectual rot is overwhelming. I am a research scientist and I am seriously about to start shopping around for the whackiest, most frothing-at-the-mouth church to join to ensure my future prosperity…..

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:12:02 +0000

I think many journalists are too lazy or lack the scientific capacity to actually read the science articles, so they just go off of the press releases from universities. I have to say, though, that the Pediatrics article doesn’t really emphasize the lack of causality in the paper very much; they mention that the study is just an association basically in two or three short sentences, one of which is in the abstract. The authors themselves seem to proclaim the study as a nearly causal link, if you read the interviews with them. So I’m not really that surprised that the journalists are overhyping the study, when the authors themselves do too.

By: Apollo

Apollo — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:02:05 +0000

From the conclusion in the Pediatrics abstract, you’d think the folks at Reuters would take note not to overstate the claims (i.e. as clear a disclaimer about the inability to establish causality as any)… but I suppose they’re in the business of making news and mountains out of molehills.