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Not sure why this struck a nerve with me but this is really shitty reporting. I guess because the site labeled itself as science news but the article is all co
by kev009 9y ago
Not sure why this struck a nerve with me but this is really shitty reporting. I guess because the site labeled itself as science news but the article is all confirmation bias and correlation v causation.
On entry to the article of course it seems like common sense that breathing in what could boil down to chlorine gas (bleaches) and peroxide mist etc would be bad for you.
But the entire article is then trying to fit a poorly designed and sampled study to that common sense. By the time you get to the end of the article where there was no measured effect in men, I don't think the collected data supports any of the color commentary.
It would be interesting to see a properly sampled study in a country like the US with wider socioeconomic gradient and crosscutting clean v non-cleaners.
- jostmey 9y agoBad reporting? It does a pretty good job explaining what was analyzed in the study. It talks about negative results (i.e. no effect in men, no COPD), and at the end of the article it discusses the limitations. It is a Eureka report--It's a press release that I think is usually written by the researchers themselves or the University. Is the science valid? Maybe, maybe not. But I do not perceive this as bad reporting