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deflatortoday at 5:46 PM4 repliesview on HN

That's all I need to see to stop reading the study. Sponsored science is just noise.


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b00ty4breakfasttoday at 6:06 PM

it's not necessarily the case that it's junk science, but it is absolutely beyond the capabilities of a normal person or persons to winnow out the chaff.

akramachamareitoday at 7:35 PM

Wow, ad hominem reasoning as a principal for info consumption. I ought to shake your hand. In all seriousness, I can appreciate the time-economic value to your policy, but wouldn't regard it is as an epistemic device.

vixen99today at 7:04 PM

It's claimed that around 90% of Americans are choline deficient. Eggs are one the best nutritional sources for choline. There are several papers linking low choline levels with Altzheimer disease so it would not be surprising to find a link between egg consumption and Altzheimer incidence. Sponsored studies should indeed be treated with much caution but is anyone suggesting such authors invent positive results or ignore highly inconvenient results? Such behavior would be reprehensible and not something with which a researcher would wish to be associated.

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light_hue_1today at 6:00 PM

Virtually all the drugs you take, interventions, cancer treatments, etc. are based on such science.

Almost everything we have in modern medicine is.

This whole position is nonsense. The paper stands on its own.

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