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I'm sorry but I completely disagree; the standard absolutely should be "we're doing the best that is currently possible to determine how things work". Asking f
by TameAntelope 4y ago
I'm sorry but I completely disagree; the standard absolutely should be "we're doing the best that is currently possible to determine how things work". Asking for more is entitled and completely misunderstands the nature of science.
We need to have a way to figure out what to tell people to do, and we're doing that, whether you like it or not, with imperfect information.
Also not for nothing, this data is not "more or less garbage". This is about as good as we can do in science right now, and honestly your tone is pretty terrible. It sounds like you want religious levels of certainty and you feel you deserve that.
Science doesn't get much more certain than this (and this is far from very certain in any sense), there is no "better" way to do things that the researchers just lazily didn't follow here, and your suggesting that such is the case is ignorant and selfish. You should feel bad for what you've written here.
- jtc331 4y ago> Science doesn't get much more certain than this A well designed RCT isn’t much more certain than this? Observational studies are hardly the peak for scientific knowledge.
- guelo 4y agoA decades long rigorously controlled RCT in human nutrition science is practically impossible. Even if it were possible the scientist would still have to choose variables to control for in their population selection.
- thereisnospork 4y agoYou don't get points for trying. If observational 'scientists' can't discern something about the world which stands up to scrutiny then they are wasting everyone's time, including theirs.