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Re:Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Ju... by thrownaway2424 on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @11:42AM (#10458703)
Agreed on 1-4 but you lost me at #5. Explain?
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Re:Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Ju... by dekhn on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @12:17PM (#10459001)
You should always consider the bias of the author of a paper when evaluating it. THe author has a vested interest in seeing an outcome. Many authors permit their bias to allow themselves to overanalyze a poorly designed study. Lustig has a history of doing this, for example he published papers previously where the evidence led to a different conclusion; in particular, he selectively analyzed his data to support his conclusion, but direct analysis showed the opposite.
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Re:Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Ju... by awolf on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @12:39PM (#10459196)
>for example he published papers previously where the evidence led to a different conclusion

I did not know this. Could you share the papers you're talking about?

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Re:Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Ju... by dekhn on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @01:46PM (#10459765)
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

read the paper carefully.

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