Comments by "Wobbles And Bean" (@WobblesandBean) on "This $8 Million Medical Trial Is A Joke" video.

  1. That's what makes me so mad. I have lupus, but for a while my doctors thought I had ME. Now as a scientist, I understand this data. I understand what all of this means and how fraudulently it's being presented. But most people are not scientists, or even understand the scientific process like I assume most of Pete's audience does. So yeah, they're going to take this and run with it, just like they did with that awful autism "study". Correlation doesn't automatically mean causation, but again, most people don't understand that.
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  2. That's what I'm having trouble understanding. Why didn't he just use a scatter plot or a nonstandard distribution? The data is still valid, you still show what the standard deviation is and still show a strong correlation, that would have made sense given the data and would still support the claim (as he recorded it, which is also problematic, but still). It makes no sense to do it this way.
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  3. 20:30 That's....not really how a standard distribution works, though? You're talking about qualitative data, SDs are quantitative. So these people are trying to pass off qualitative data by trying to make it appear quantitative. Am I getting this right? Also, why didn't they just use a nonstandard distribution? The data is still just as valid and can support a claim just as much as a standard one, I don't understand why they would do this. Sorry for the confusion, my brain broke a little bit trying to make sense of this. Newsletters....just. Why.
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  4. That made me facepalm. Literally my forehead went right into my hand. I've performed studies, and I've participated in studies. A newsletter informing everyone of what's going on completely defeats the purpose of a blind study. This isn't science, it's a poorly disguised self help retreat.
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  5. And the sad thing is, laypeople are going to blame science. Science is objective, but people are not. Bad faith actors like this damage the credibility of all of us.
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