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Re:Consumption of a dark roast coffee blend reduces DNA dama... by skookumchuck on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:39AM (#18919436)
> free from corporate interests

That won't help. All research is subject to the bias of the researchers. For example, many researchers have been caught fabricating results so they'll get famous. And just because someone is being funded by the government hardly means the government doesn't have a biased interest in the result. Everyone running the government has an agenda that isn't exactly altruistic.

Re:Consumption of a dark roast coffee blend reduces DNA dama... by hnnh44 on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:03AM (#18919561)
This is funny.

Just a while back there was an article posted about how studies SHOULD start out with defined objectives. The argument was that academics are so desperate to publish positive results that they'll draw any positive conclusion, even if it wasn't what the study started out trying to accomplish.

Re:Consumption of a dark roast coffee blend reduces DNA dama... by tome on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @06:20AM (#18919887)
Indeed. What you are describing is p-hacking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging

Re:Consumption of a dark roast coffee blend reduces DNA dama... by hnnh44 on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @08:33AM (#18920649)
Thank you! I didn't know there was a term for it.