aarstid

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   by aarstid 4d ago

   I find it really strange the way “peer-reviewed” is used by the general public as some gold standard of truth. As a former academic who has been there, the process is extremely arbitrary and variable. Are people aware that the “peer” refers
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   by aarstid 22d ago

   The biggest problem is that they are racist. Optical blood sugar sensing devices were developed a decade ago. They were pretty accurate for pale white people, ballpark for most skin tones and don’t work at all for Black people. Good luck br
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   by aarstid 2mo ago

   Controlled experiments in humans are expensive, time consuming, and actually very difficult to do. Meanwhile any grad student can do a mouse model. The motivation of most academic labs is citations and grants, not useful information. Putti