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Biomedical studies are shockingly hard to reproduce + Unreliable dietary guidelines

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Biomedical Science Studies Are Shockingly Hard to Reproduce
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-na...180957708/

EXCERPT: [...] over the past several years, a growing contingent of scientists has begun to question the accepted veracity of published research—even after it's cleared the hurdles of peer review and appears in widely respected journals. The problem is a pervasive inability to replicate a large proportion of the results across numerous disciplines. [...] “There are multiple lines of evidence, both theoretical and empirical, that have begun to bring the reproducibility of a substantial segment of scientific literature into question,” says Ioannidis. “We are getting millions of papers that go nowhere.” These preliminary findings have spawned the creation of an entirely new field called meta-research—the scientific study of science.

[...] While some issues may lie in conscious or unconscious research biases, it's likely that most studies that reach publication are one of a kind due to the current incentive structure in science. In the cutthroat world of academia, the primary measure of success is the number of studies a researcher gets in prestigious journals. As a result, scientists are under pressure to spend the majority of their time obtaining the kinds of breakthrough results that are most likely to get published....



You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-...nutrition/

EXCERPT: [...] The U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee recently released its latest guidelines, which define a healthy diet as one that emphasizes vegetables, fruits, whole grains, low- or nonfat dairy products, seafood, legumes and nuts while reducing red and processed meat, refined grains, and sugary foods and beverages. Some cardiologists recommend a Mediterranean diet rich in olive oil, the American Diabetes Association gives the nod to both low-carbohydrate and low-fat diets, and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine promotes a vegetarian diet. Ask a hard-bodied CrossFit aficionado, and she may champion a “Paleo” diet based on foods our Paleolithic ancestors (supposedly) ate. My colleague Walt Hickey swears by the keto diet.

Who’s right? It’s hard to say. When it comes to nutrition, everyone has an opinion. What no one has is an airtight case. The problem begins with a lack of consensus on what makes a diet healthy....
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Often with research, one needs special interpretative ability to be able to add suitable salt grains if needed.

My guess on diet is low carb, low fat, and low protein all at the same time, except recent research suggests that the elderly do better with extra protein intake.
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