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The entire nutrition science industry needs to start reporting confidence levels associated with studies. Almost all nutritional advice is based on small studie
by greglindahl 10y ago
The entire nutrition science industry needs to start reporting confidence levels associated with studies. Almost all nutritional advice is based on small studies. That's why you see them contradict each other on a frequent basis.
You need a 5 sigma result to discover a new particle. Discovering new particles doesn't kill people.
- sndean 10y ago> Almost all nutritional advice is based on small studies. I doubt they'll ever really expand beyond small studies in that field. There's certain groups that routinely do meta-analyses of nutritional (and other) studies, like the Cochrane Collaboration. E.g., Effect of cocoa on blood pressure: http://www.cochrane.org/CD008893/HTN_effect-of-cocoa-on-blood-pressure http://www.cochrane.org/CD008893/HTN_effect-of-cocoa-on-bloo... That's really the only way to be confident, short of setting up a massive (expensive) randomized controlled trial.
- klodolph 10y agoDiscovering new particles doesn't kill people? Not so sure… the history of atomic chemistry is littered with dead scientists.
- jack9 10y agowhoosh
- brotherAB 10y agoYou are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack. Yet the only president talking about nutrition and GMO is Putin. Crazy based russians. https://www.rt.com/business/324605-russia-putin-healthy-food/ https://www.rt.com/business/324605-russia-putin-healthy-food...