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Ah, this gets me extremely suspicious until there's independent verification.
by alecco 11y ago
Ah, this gets me extremely suspicious until there's independent verification.
- chaz72 11y agoIf it can't be independently verified, it can't be called science, no matter how promising the study is when they run it.
- cag_ii 11y agoWhy do you think it can't be independently verified? There is a link elsewhere in this thread to the related patent application which I would think contains enough info to verify.
- chaz72 11y agoWell, to be fair, I have no idea. I saw some reference here in the comments that there was not enough data for someone to replicate it. I saw some other reference here in the comments that they are going to sell diet packs and have a commercial interest. That's not really enough to draw a conclusion, is it? Thing is, it isn't my intent to draw a conclusion. Merely to say that if they do not make it reproducible and testable by another team, then all the studies and data in the world do not qualify as science.
- evincarofautumn 11y agoInversely, if it can be independently verified, it can be called science, no matter how suspect they are.
- chaz72 11y agoExactly so.
- mojoe 11y agoYou are probably talking specifically about the four day diet cycle referenced in this article, but I want to point out that there are already many, many studies supporting the link between calorie restriction and slow aging -- this literature review has links to many peer-reviewed papers: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/78/3/361 http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/78/3/361