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Just want to highlight that you put a blog named "Astral Codex Ten" claiming patchiness and methodological flaws because "data are very noisy" against the peer-
by trhway 3y ago
Just want to highlight that you put a blog named "Astral Codex Ten" claiming patchiness and methodological flaws because "data are very noisy" against the peer-reviewed journals like Oxford Scientific which for example states:
"This comprehensive meta-regression analysis reports a significant decline in sperm counts (as measured by SC and TSC) between 1973 and 2011, driven by a 50–60% decline among men unselected by fertility from North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. "
If the "data are very noisy" argument were a sound argument it would have dismissed most of the science that we have today.
- dmurray 3y agoI'm not putting anything against anything. That paper [0] completely agrees with the blog - they threw out all but 38 of the 2936 studies they considered, for crying out loud - and neither makes any call on sperm count in animals other than humans. [0] https://academic.oup.com/humupd/article/29/2/157/6824414 https://academic.oup.com/humupd/article/29/2/157/6824414