The Coordinated Assault on Fasting - Opinion
After four years of watching fake science take over the world, with hundreds of thousands of fake papers followed by ridiculous headlines, all pushing some agenda that ruins people’s lives, I’ve finally developed a rule-based system for ferreting out fraud.
Rule one: If it is a press release without complete disclosure of every bit of data and method, alongside possible conflicts of interest, dismiss it.
Rule two: If it relies entirely on correlation and makes no attempt at plausible causal inference, dismiss it.
Rule three: If the paper does not correct for obvious bias that could provide a completely different explanation of the prevailing trend, dismiss it.