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Re:Benefit of Microbiota Transfer Therapy on autism symptoms... by avip on Friday April 12, 2019 @09:23AM (#19644542)
I think he was understating. Dismissing this results is in fact the right approach for a scientist.
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Re:Benefit of Microbiota Transfer Therapy on autism symptoms... by cjbprime on Friday April 12, 2019 @06:07PM (#19649487)
Agree, and furthermore, dismissing any single paper result without replication is the right approach for most scientists and (I'd argue) almost all non-scientists.

The publication incentives are extremely messed up and in favor of exciting results that aren't true.

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