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Good catch. I hadn't looked up the authors, but their associations had raise some red flags for me.

• collyw 13y ago
  Good science should be good science independent of the authors interests, no? (Not saying this paper is good science, but I dislike the attitude of dismissing based on who the authors are).
  • wes-exp 13y ago
    Sadly, oftentimes it is industrial affiliation that can be the biggest predictor of whether a published work supports one side or another in particular issue. Usually this is due to companies funding their own biased research.
  • tonyarkles 13y ago
    Yes, but... I wouldn't 100% judge the work based on authorship, but it definitely makes me think twice when Toxicology research is published by a computer scientist. It makes me wonder even more when that work is published by Americans in a Slovakian Toxicology journal. And when it's published by two people who have published work of questionable quality in the past... I think those are decent heuristics to flag this work as having a higher probability of being flawed. Sure, it's not 100% objective, and all scientific literature should probably be looked at through the same critical lens. I'm not a toxicology researcher, and I don't have time to thoroughly investigate the claims of the work. This is enough of a heuristic for me to say "hmmmm, not going to make any life changing decisions based on this work until there's more data from other people"