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certainly, n=12 is not science, it's only a mild improvement on wild conjecture. however, i can't seem to find anything that says the study was funded by a com
by foxhill 13y ago
certainly, n=12 is not science, it's only a mild improvement on wild conjecture.
however, i can't seem to find anything that says the study was funded by a company that sells green tea drinks (or anything that would call the study's impartiality into question)
- dalke 13y agoThe paper is at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00213-014-3526-1/fulltext.html http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00213-014-3526-1... . The acknowledgements say: > This study was supported by grants from the Rivella. All authors have agreed to its submission in this form and we do not have any conflict of interests that might be interpreted as influencing its content. The sponsor of the study had no role in study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, writing of this report, and in the decision to submit the paper for publication. Rivella is a milk whey-based soft drink from Switzerland. Green Rivella is flavored with green tea extract. And indeed, in the section on "Composition of test drinks": > Rivella is a commercially available carbonated soft drink on the basis of milk whey. In 1999, a new flavor with a 0.05 % addition of standardized green tea extract was introduced.