in a meta-analysis of 11 RCTs, using artificial sweeteners did reduce body weight, but only slightly: “Overall, the NAS [non-calorie artificial sweetener] group showed significantly reduced body weight -1.07 kg (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.41 to 1.72). Subgroup analyses in children (aged < 18 years) revealed that the NAS group showed significantly reduced body weight 1.18 kg (95% CI 0.44 to 1.93). However, adults did not have association between NAS and weight. Subgroup analysis of duration showed for the short term that the NAS group had significantly reduced body weight 0.69 kg (95% CI 0.34 to 1.04); and even in long term, the NAS group had significantly reduced body weight 1.32 kg (95% CI 0.32 to 2.31).” #health-care #science #research #medicine #food-additives
on 02023-10-08does #inflammation cause chronic diseases? #health-care #science #research
on 02019-05-20Billions of titanium dioxide nanocrystals (#TiO2) in pancreas tissue are associated with type-2 #diabetes, being found in all 8 diabetic samples and ZERO of three non-diabetic samples. #health-care #science #research #medicine #food-additives
on 02018-06-21Susan Fiske complaining about “methodological terrorists” tearing apart psychological pseudoscience based on misuse of statistics. #science
on 02016-10-17Kathleen Allen wrote this #paper in 2002 attempting to redefine “scholarship” to include basically everything. #science
on 02016-10-11The Association of Research Libraries attempts to define “scholarly communication” #science
on 02016-10-11“The aims and limits of historical scholarship” 2002 #science #paper
on 02016-10-11Elsevier journal Annals of Physics retracted Joy Christian’s paper but didn’t tell him. #science
on 02016-10-11“The process by which science is made is unproductive and prone to generate bad #science” due to the funding model I guess
on 02016-10-11PubPeer is doing anonymous post-publication peer review, changing the nature of scholarly communication. #science
on 02016-10-10This is related to the “scholarly method” article and is a little better. #science
on 02016-09-23mostly things about “the scholarly method” are from people who want to rewrite history in a self-serving way, but this Wikipedia article seems relatively evenhanded (if bizarrely partial and disorganized). #science
on 02016-09-23This guy did some #science with some different sail #textile materials and found that #Tenara was the only one that wasn’t badly degraded by a couple of months of humidity and UV. #materials
on 02016-06-28“Thrombosis remains a significant and potentially catastrophic complication of #polyethylene-terephthalate (Dacron) prosthetic vascular graft implantation.” Not clear whether boiling it in lye actually helped. #materials #science #medicine #paper
on 02016-06-28#drugs #science #medicine #health-care
on 02015-12-16“If the reader is to grasp what the writer means, the writer must understand what the reader needs” #education #science #academia
on 02015-08-05