Not just medicine, it’s common especially among celebrity scientists but they’re too famous to be called out. Doug Tallamy comes to mind.
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mecfs@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is why I hate it so much when authors overstate their findings in abstract, which unfortunately is extremely common in medicine.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Norgur@fedia.io 10 months ago
And next you know, someone cites them and concludes that coffee cures cancer.... Or causes it when drunk at exactly or above 41.33456 degrees Celsius or when.you drink more than 4 but less than 3 daily. Or was that chocolate? No! Red wine! It was red wine!
mecfs@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh my god exactly.
I work on a pretty neglected Neuroimmune illness ME/CFS (hence my username) with really low recovery rates whether treated or untreated (~5%).
And the number of “clinical trials” of things like “Graded Exercise Therapy” or “CBT” or “Acupuncture” or [insert random supplement] that claims to “cure” the condition is so large. Except these trials all rely on subjective outcome measures and none are placebo controlled, oh and ofcourse the results never last in long term followup.
sukhmel@programming.dev 10 months ago
They only need to last long enough for the results to be published /s
Chetzemoka@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hey fam, as a person with ME/CFS who works in healthcare, just wanted to say that I appreciate you.
Liz@midwest.social 10 months ago
Also, I think it’s downright absurd that MECFS gets ignored so much. That shit is way more common than we like to admit and it can turn a healthy person into a massive drain on everyone around them (ignoring their own suffering, of course). Like, you would think we’d be super motivated to fix this shit.
mecfs@lemmy.world 10 months ago
haha agree, suprised to find so many people knowledgeable about ME and pwME on this page, is there a Lemmy server for it?
Liz@midwest.social 10 months ago
Everyone who put on the PACE trial should be exercised to death.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Turns out alcohol has zero benefits and it was legumes all along.
Eat yo damn beans people.
Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I need some source for this cause I know people were just making an excuse to drink when they say this.
Also what’s academic research. Do I gotta go back to college for it? It sounds interesting.
veganpizza69@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You can use grapevine leaves for wraps or rolls. 🥬🫘