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This is not Nature, this is "scientific report", which is not a bad journal but no Nature either.

• jessriedel 8y ago
  Slight clarification: The journal is called Scientific Reports, which as you correctly emphasize is very different than the journal Nature even though they are owned by the same company. The articles are still called "articles" though.
• azeotropic 8y ago
  It's basically Springer-Nature's answer to PLoS One. As long as it's not obviously crazy, anything goes. This doesn't look very convincing though. Without a no-treatment or sham treatment control, the results could be placebo effect, reversion to the mean on their metrics, or due to the antibiotic treatment rather than the transplanted gut bacteria, or a just a statistical fluke with this small population. One thing that stands out to me is the lack of difference in developmental age between 8 weeks and 2 years after treatment. I find it hard to understand how that would occur under the model where this treatment does something.