axiomaticdoubts

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by axiomaticdoubts 3y ago
There've been multiple studies that gave people potassium supplements and measured their body weight. (Primarily because potassium helps lower blood pressure). They haven't found that potassium causes weight loss. See my meta-anal
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by axiomaticdoubts 3y ago
I think it's worth pointing out that they've also said multiple false things in their blog posts, and have refused to address or fix them despite repeated requests over a period of more than one year. I think people should be care
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by axiomaticdoubts 3y ago
I don't think mold_time is a good example of citizen science done right. They have said multiple false things and refused to address or correct their statements when other people pointed them out. See https://www.lesswrong.c
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by axiomaticdoubts 3y ago
The main issue with this riff trial is that it doesn't test the most likely reason the potato diet works: that it's a very restrictive diet. Testing several different hypotheses barely helps at all if you don't test the overw
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by axiomaticdoubts 3y ago
The attrition rate was very high. The claim that it's easy was based on a few anecdotes, which aren't representative of the trial participants.
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by axiomaticdoubts 3y ago
"A Chemical Hunger" has multiple inaccuracies that have never been addressed or corrected. For example, they made up the "fact" that wild animals have been getting fatter out of thin air. See https://www.lessw
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by axiomaticdoubts 3y ago
The critical temperature is not 127 C. They did not actually measure the critical temperature. They just said it's at least 400 K (~127 C), probably because that was the maximum temperature the equipment they used could measure.
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by axiomaticdoubts 3y ago
People publish blog posts for several reasons. Many see it as a fun, social activity.
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by axiomaticdoubts 3y ago
It's not just bloggers. There are computer scientists with publications in top CS conferences that post on LW. For example, Alexander Turner, Dan Hendrycks, Paul Christiano, and Jacob Steinhardt all post there.
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by axiomaticdoubts 3y ago
Well, yeah, blogs are not academic journals. And if a blog post disagrees with academic consensus, the academic consensus will be right the vast majority of the time. But this applies to all blogs on the internet, not only those on LessWron
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by axiomaticdoubts 3y ago
Those posts have grave errors, which the authors have been made aware of long ago but have refused to fix. For example, they literally made up the claim that wild animals have been getting more obese (there is no evidence of that). See this
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by axiomaticdoubts 3y ago
I still think it's important to note that the blog's work is shoddy. The fact that this blog post is #1 on HN means that multiple people will read SMTM's other blog posts, which contain several falsehoods that they've re
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On not getting contaminated by the wrong obesity ideas(lesswrong.com)
6 points by axiomaticdoubts 4y ago|0 comments
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by axiomaticdoubts 4y ago
Note: I am the author of "It's Probably Not Lithium." That SMTM post only addresses 5 of the ~17 studies about food lithium concentration that I mentioned in my post. It ignores several studies that did not use ICP-MS to meas