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Is this a peer-reviewed finding? As someone without expertise in the area how do I evaluate its credibility?
by hrasyid 6y ago
Is this a peer-reviewed finding? As someone without expertise in the area how do I evaluate its credibility?
- shock 6y agoHow do you evaluate the credibility of anything in life? I'm not being facetious, it's a question I've been asking myself a lot lately after making decisions based on the information from a medical doctor, who, turns out, was not competent to make certain affirmations.
- searchableguy 6y agoI have been asking that too. What steps should I take to verify information without becoming an expert in the field? What about more nuanced political topics?
- deckar01 6y agoIt does not appear to have been peer reviewed. It is being hosted by a diet book author, which should be a red flag. The most reputable source they cite for correlating Vitamin D level with Covid-19 cases and deaths called the correlation "crude" [0]. It is a weak correlation. Their suggestion that there have been controlled studies on infected patients seems to be misleading. As far as I can tell from the sources they cited, none of them administered Vitamin D to Covid-19 patients. I think the trials they are citing were performed years ago on pneumonia patients, not on Covid-19 patients [1]. [0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7202265/pdf/40520_2020_Article_1570.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7202265/pdf/405... [1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4939707/pdf/main.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4939707/pdf/mai...
- ColanR 6y agoThere's other studies cited in this discussion. Those are peer-reviewed and do back up what the post is claiming.