Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/09/looking-at-the-effects-of-hyperbaric-oxygen-treatment-on-aging-revisiting-a-problematic-study-and-ridiculous-claims/
The scientific community is very broad, and there are many groups within that community whose members intermittently produce studies that are either poorly designed, poorly conducted, or poorly presented and explained. Or all three, for all of the usual reasons. Constraints of time and funding, institutional pressure to publish, the involvement of external interests, and so forth. Bad papers do get published, provided that the authors are subtle enough. This does tend to be a self-correcting problem, when considered over a sufficiently long span of time to allow errant individuals and institutions to blacken their reputations with the community at large. Still, at any given moment, one should expect to see that some small fraction of published scientific papers are problematic, rather than merely incorrect.
The problematic paper for today’s discussion was published last year, reporting on a study of the effects of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbaric_med…
Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/09/looking-at-the-effects-of-hyperbaric-oxygen-treatment-on-aging-revisiting-a-problematic-study-and-ridiculous-claims/
The scientific community is very broad, and there are many groups within that community whose members intermittently produce studies that are either poorly designed, poorly conducted, or poorly presented and explained. Or all three, for all of the usual reasons. Constraints of time and funding, institutional pressure to publish, the involvement of external interests, and so forth. Bad papers do get published, provided that the authors are subtle enough. This does tend to be a self-correcting problem, when considered over a sufficiently long span of time to allow errant individuals and institutions to blacken their reputations with the community at large. Still, at any given moment, one should expect to see that some small fraction of published scientific papers are problematic, rather than merely incorrect.
The problematic paper for today’s discussion was published last year, reporting on a study of the effects of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbaric_med…
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