Re:Tobacco and Psychosis: not quite a smoking gun
by patcheudor on Sunday October 25, 2015 @09:39PM
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It's not even writing like you talk in this case. As an example:
"This study examined smoking in first episode psychosis in order to minimize the any confounding effect of self-medication."
Is there an editor in the house? It gets worse:
"The results were that worldwide, 59% people with first episode psychosis use are regular tobacco users, that people with first episode psychosis have a six-fold greater probability of being smokers than the general population and that smoking initiation occurs on average 5.3 years before the onset of psychosis."
I'll give researchers the benefit of the doubt that these types of mistakes could be related to English as a second, third, or fourth language. Maybe they happened as part of a bad translation? However, these were researchers from South Wales and Australia. As a result I wonder how many mistakes they made in their research. If you produce research which is worth publishing, get an editor.
"This study examined smoking in first episode psychosis in order to minimize the any confounding effect of self-medication."
Is there an editor in the house? It gets worse:
"The results were that worldwide, 59% people with first episode psychosis use are regular tobacco users, that people with first episode psychosis have a six-fold greater probability of being smokers than the general population and that smoking initiation occurs on average 5.3 years before the onset of psychosis."
I'll give researchers the benefit of the doubt that these types of mistakes could be related to English as a second, third, or fourth language. Maybe they happened as part of a bad translation? However, these were researchers from South Wales and Australia. As a result I wonder how many mistakes they made in their research. If you produce research which is worth publishing, get an editor.