#the one i just saw was a diagnostic tool for CFS and the person summarising was like THEY CAN DIAGNOSE IT NOW THEYRE TESTING DRUGS USING IT | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

borealing · 1 year ago

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whenever i see someone on this site summarising a scientific article that is itself summarising a paper especially if that paper is about anything pharma/medicine i feel a great sense of impending doom. not that i don't trust randomers on the piss on the poor website but i always go and fact check against the actual paper and not once has someone summarising an article thats summarising a paper ever been like. right.

#the temptation to start a 'scientific misinformation' sideblog where people can just send me things people write to fact check #the one i just saw was a diagnostic tool for CFS and the person summarising was like THEY CAN DIAGNOSE IT NOW THEYRE TESTING DRUGS USING IT #1. no 2. no #diagnosis is a tricky beast and the more you know about biomarkers the more it becomes ???????????#and literally nowhere in the article or the paper did it say they were testing drugs using it #it said 'we hope to repurpose this so it can be used as a tool to measure drug efficacy'#anyway. dont trust people to communicate science effectively here #the articles are usually pretty good but the tumblrised summaries are not. im gonna become a one-person community notes just for science

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