Bad Science

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• I have great respect for the manufactures of cosmetics. They are at the other end of the spectrum from the detox industry: this is a tightly regulated industry, with big money to be made from nonsense, and so we find large, well-organized teams from international biotech firms generating elegant, distracting, suggestive, but utterly defensible pseudoscience. (查看原文)

  hedgehog 2013-11-12 14:23:23

• Clinicians, pundits and researchers all like to say things like "There is a need for more reseach," because it sounds forward-thingking abd open-minded. In fact that's not always the case, and it's a little-known fact that this very phrase has been effectively banned fro the British Medical Journal for many years, on the grounds that it adds nothing: you may say what research is missing, on whem, how, measuring what, and why you want to do it, but the hand-waving, superficially open-minded call for "more research" is meaningless and unhelpful. (查看原文)

  hedgehog 2013-11-13 14:29:54

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