tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post5185410093015068015..comments2024-03-05T10:52:24.691+00:00Comments on Mark Wadsworth: "Smoking bans increase number of reviews into the effect of smoking bans by 10%, study says"Mark Wadsworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-36106087458517908382014-03-29T15:25:56.235+00:002014-03-29T15:25:56.235+00:00Bayard,
Well, if you do the work, you can debunk ...Bayard,<br /><br />Well, if you do the work, you can debunk them, and one of the benefits is that you can go into these reports and anyone who tries to say "nope, can't see it" is treated with suspicion.<br /><br />The problem is that the MSM will just take pre-packaged nonsense and publish it if it comes from their favoured sources. In this case, the BBC and others favour The Lancet, despite the fact that it published Andrew Wakefield's work, a cancer study that used fictional data and a ludicrous study suggesting 654,000 additional deaths had occurred due to the Iraq War.<br /><br />Tim Almondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13369256383976094670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-8628108126796362112014-03-29T11:24:02.812+00:002014-03-29T11:24:02.812+00:00I suppose people will slowly wake up to the fact t...I suppose people will slowly wake up to the fact that it is so easy to "publish" reports on "research", now that you have the internet and no longer have to persuade some journal with a reputation that it cares about to print it, that anything can be "published" then referenced in just such a metastudy and gain respectability by accretion. No amount of debunking will affect these reference networks: they are there, like everything else on the internet, for everyone, for ever.Bayardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15211150959757982948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-53307268612077364932014-03-28T20:50:38.393+00:002014-03-28T20:50:38.393+00:00TS, ah yes, but I'm going to ask for funding f...TS, ah yes, but I'm going to ask for funding for a meta-metabullshit study.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-13102979149537338532014-03-28T17:30:41.077+00:002014-03-28T17:30:41.077+00:00it's a metabullshit study, made up of a number...it's a metabullshit study, made up of a number of prior bullshit studies including one that Christopher Snowdon debunked.Tim Almondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13369256383976094670noreply@blogger.com