What is it about?
Response to the article Seidelmann SB Claggett B Cheng S et al. Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective cohort study and meta-analysis. Lancet Public Health. 2018; 3: e419-e428 which was full of statistical errors and suffered from serous statistical manipulations
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Why is it important?
When it comes to nutrition research and people's health and lives are at stake, research papers full of analytical, statistical, and conceptual errors may be harmful. Papers like that should not be published. This paper lacked proper review by professionals who understood the science. With its catchy title and the ensuing newsflashes all over the world within minutes of publish cause irreparable damage.
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Reading the original article, to which my commentary was published, made me ashamed of being a scientist. Siedelmann et all's article brought shame to the entire industry of nutrition research. Although nutrition is not my primary field of research, the harm this paper caused in the field--including blocking the possibility of funding for future research, has ignited the flame in me to respond and point out the inadequate statistics and calculations and the terrible tools used for an absolutely fake and fabricated hypothesis. With the significant data manipulations that it took to prove a faulty point, this paper was nothing short of fraud. It required an intervention.
Dr Angela A Stanton
independent Researcher
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This page is a summary of: Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: reflections and reactions, The Lancet Public Health, November 2018, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/s2468-2667(18)30205-6.
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