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Believing a report in a general news publication that attempts to summarize the conclusion of a study that hasn't been replicated anywhere can lead to an increa

Believing a report in a general news publication that attempts to summarize the conclusion of a study that hasn't been replicated anywhere can lead to an increase in stupidity. Caveat emptor. Also, all headlines are clickbait. Get over it.

wil421 9y ago
Agreed. I saw an article on the front page last week about how standing desks causes more issues than sitting. The sample size was one office with 20 people.
- frozenport 9y ago
  Doesn't mean they are wrong. Imagine if everybody in that office died. You'd know something was up, perhaps not standing desks. The key thing is mechanism and if another group tried to reproduce.
gascan 9y ago
It fits in with other things we already know, though. Cleaners and their VOC are responsible for an increasing portion of ground level ozone & smog, which are also correlated with declining lung function. This would be just yet another reason to change how you clean.
sdpy 9y ago
The original study: http://www.thoracic.org/about/newsroom/press-releases/resources/women-cleaners-lung-function.pdf http://www.thoracic.org/about/newsroom/press-releases/resour...