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Analyzing and demonstrating problems with an accepted but potentially ineffective / suboptimal treatment method does something to resolve the issue in terms of
by gwn7 4y ago
Analyzing and demonstrating problems with an accepted but potentially ineffective / suboptimal treatment method does something to resolve the issue in terms of illustrating the need for new methods thus making room for new research & development.
Not everything needs to be constructive. You sound like you don't appreciate this kind of work. I don't see a problem about this "not being new" nor being "just a meta review".
Should scientists "shut up unless they have new or good things to say"?
- tokai 4y agoNo I don't like it because it doesn't add much new knowledge to the debate about the serotonin hypothesis. And yeah it would be great if scientist didn't had to publish results for the sake of it. Especially in medical sciences meta studies are super popular cause you can do them with library article login and spreadsheets, which end up in a lot of articles with strong conclusions on a mismatch of data. Meta review definitely have their place but they are as far removed from the clinical reality as can be.
- gwn7 4y agoInteresting take for me. Thank you for your answer
- etc-hosts 4y agoMoncrieff has been writing about this for years https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-230-58944-5 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-230-58944-5 Obviously I have not read every line of the new paper and I have no idea if it has any new research.