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I will add that this is the sort of thing that peer review theoretically ought to stop, or at least force authors to include caveats for. Unfortunately, studies
by jimrandomh 10y ago
I will add that this is the sort of thing that peer review theoretically ought to stop, or at least force authors to include caveats for. Unfortunately, studies with this sort of methodology make up most of the so-called studies published, so they can't really do that.
- epistasis 10y agoI haven't read the paper itself, but even if it didn't explicitly note these caveats, it would be assumed by any reader in its intended audience. The problem is the press representation of the papers as something they're not. These types of papers should be published, because they are necessary to decide which hypotheses to test with interventional studies.