#among the problems: hm a 6 week 40 person study with 3 baths per week and showing substantial improvement for 6 months. hm. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

thespacesay · 2 years ago

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ID: a tag. #this is actually how the CDC makes decisions i believe / end ID

the CDC has declared THE MIASMA harmless after extensive research by Subway Fresh™ scientists. “if THE MIASMA were dangerous,” say researchers, “no one would be able to Eat Fresh™ this summer”

#ID provided #like i WANT to trust the CDC and shit #but i only trust the explicitly linked sources and only as much as i see actual science agreeing #i do not have the time to check every paper or shit like that but if it's something 'political' enough to need urgent checking #i try to look at what science ppl in the field are saying when they read the papers #and work with my own science background to interpret how bad it actually is based on WHAT types of issues they see #like if they're saying 'hm methodology is standard and results are concerning' then i'm taking shit seriously but realistically #if they're like 'bruh wtf kinda methodology is this' then the whole paper is usually garbage better used to judge the politics #i do not want to be a methodology person. i just want to trust science :(#but alas #reminds me that a friend and i read - for shits and giggles - a paper suggesting that ppl with fibro should soak in baths for pain #among the problems: hm a 6 week 40 person study with 3 baths per week and showing substantial improvement for 6 months. hm.#and oh - what's this? they used the local hot spring baths? hm i wonder- ah that research lab is highly associated with them? wow!#and we're going into some strange analysis of the specific benefits of those springs? curious!#oh and the statistics section... was a single paragraph with no numbers #super super trustworthy ;)#i love when we simply apply ANOVA and tell no one anything #ANOVA is good but like... it requires a normal distribution. you need a much larger sample size to assume normal distribution in data #my stats class used 100 as a baseline but this was gen ed level shit #also if there's something that deviates from your conclusion do NOT just dismiss it out of hand!!! what's ur theory/theories???#aaaaaaaa

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