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I hate the fact that this study seems to be tainted with potential conflict of interest as outlined by @themodelplumber. I wish science could get back to just-
by cubano 12y ago
I hate the fact that this study seems to be tainted with potential conflict of interest as outlined by @themodelplumber.
I wish science could get back to just-being-science and focus on provable, repeatable results sans corporate involvement, as I think if this is really true, it could be a real breakthrough.
I have some experience with fasting, and was always surprised how good I felt after a couple of days, and to be honest the times I was actively living a fasting lifestyle, I do not remember ever getting sick.
Yes yes I know...a big bag of confirmation bias and anecdotal evidence, which is why I hope deeper, hard-science studies will continue.
- gfodor 12y agoReplies above claim themodelplumber was citing the wrong study -- believing claims of conflict of interest without doing your homework is just as bad as believing studies themselves without doing your homework.
- learnstats2 12y agoThere's always conflict of interest.
- misiti3780 12y agoI read Antifragile + The Black Swan once every year to remind me of this - and everytime I read something I think about confirmation bias and silent evidence. they are not tough concepts, but the human brain isn't really weird to think that way - unfortunately (as talked about in Thinking Fast and Slow also) Taleb, for all his faults, is really good at calling out people for scientific research that contains conflicts of interest - he has been calling out GMO related stuff for the past two or three months on Twitter, before than he became famous for doing it in Finance
- jweir 12y agoTaleb is also an advocate for fasting. https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152175039588375&id=13012333374 https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=101521750395...