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Yesterday: BBC story about replication problems in science and weak studies at the top of hacker news. Today: Story about a weak, non-replicated animal study a

by hannob 10y ago

Yesterday: BBC story about replication problems in science and weak studies at the top of hacker news. Today: Story about a weak, non-replicated animal study at the top of hacker news.

baldfat 10y ago
You can always look into fasting as a medical research study. For the last few decades it just keeps increasing. 1) Decades old research on brain capacity and benefits of fasting http://www.johnshopkinshealthreview.com/issues/spring-summer-2016/articles/are-there-any-proven-benefits-to-fasting http://www.johnshopkinshealthreview.com/issues/spring-summer... 2) Fasting increases chemotheraphy effectiveness in some chemos. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fasting-might-boost-chemo/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fasting-might-boo... The research has been going on for a decade about metabolic. I use to fast once a week from dinner to dinner (Prior to midnight day break most of the world's day started at sunset so a day fast was from sunset to sunset). I seriously need to jump back on the fasting bandwagon my self-discipline has gotten lower and lower ever since I hit my mid-thirties and got married.
- hannob 10y ago
  Not sure what you're trying to tell me. The first link you provide doesn't link to the original research it's talking about. The second is about a mouse study. Maybe you're trying to reinforce my point that the HN audience likes to quote weak scientific evidence.
  - leonroy 10y ago
    I see nothing wrong with the BBC article - it could be more accurate by adding 'in mice' to the subject but that's the only problem I see. Research starts somewhere. If you're genuinely interested in quality, well researched information there's a documentary on the subject of fasting which I can highly recommend. Changed my perspective on the matter: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvdbtt_eat-fast-live-longer-hd_shortfilms http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvdbtt_eat-fast-live-longer...
  - baldfat 10y ago
    Not sure if your just a cynic and distrust everything or your trying to be a skeptic and try and find the truth. This is what makes medical research. Using mice is a very established way of testing hypothesis. Are you trying to say that we should only trust human studies when humans can't be controlled and limit what is impacting the body? I also fail to see that research not being reproducible = weak science when you then knock a study that is reproducible but then you knock it for being not human based. The fact that a lot of science isn't reproducible has many honest scientific reasons, while other's are fraud.

by hannob 10y ago

Yesterday: BBC story about replication problems in science and weak studies at the top of hacker news. Today: Story about a weak, non-replicated animal study at the top of hacker news.

baldfat 10y ago

You can always look into fasting as a medical research study. For the last few decades it just keeps increasing. 1) Decades old research on brain capacity and benefits of fasting http://www.johnshopkinshealthreview.com/issues/spring-summer-2016/articles/are-there-any-proven-benefits-to-fasting http://www.johnshopkinshealthreview.com/issues/spring-summer... 2) Fasting increases chemotheraphy effectiveness in some chemos. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fasting-might-boost-chemo/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fasting-might-boo... The research has been going on for a decade about metabolic. I use to fast once a week from dinner to dinner (Prior to midnight day break most of the world's day started at sunset so a day fast was from sunset to sunset). I seriously need to jump back on the fasting bandwagon my self-discipline has gotten lower and lower ever since I hit my mid-thirties and got married.

hannob 10y ago
Not sure what you're trying to tell me. The first link you provide doesn't link to the original research it's talking about. The second is about a mouse study. Maybe you're trying to reinforce my point that the HN audience likes to quote weak scientific evidence.
- leonroy 10y ago
  I see nothing wrong with the BBC article - it could be more accurate by adding 'in mice' to the subject but that's the only problem I see. Research starts somewhere. If you're genuinely interested in quality, well researched information there's a documentary on the subject of fasting which I can highly recommend. Changed my perspective on the matter: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvdbtt_eat-fast-live-longer-hd_shortfilms http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvdbtt_eat-fast-live-longer...
- baldfat 10y ago
  Not sure if your just a cynic and distrust everything or your trying to be a skeptic and try and find the truth. This is what makes medical research. Using mice is a very established way of testing hypothesis. Are you trying to say that we should only trust human studies when humans can't be controlled and limit what is impacting the body? I also fail to see that research not being reproducible = weak science when you then knock a study that is reproducible but then you knock it for being not human based. The fact that a lot of science isn't reproducible has many honest scientific reasons, while other's are fraud.