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[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There are a lot of upvotes here. Why would this make more sense?

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Agreed, this is a dumb comment that has no relation to the study being done, only some study they imagined in their mind.

People love to second guess scientific studies like they're set up by complete fucking morons with no review or oversight. Truly their 10 seconds of amateur brilliance is going to see the trivial flaw no one among the team of people doing this as their actual job noticed. If something sounds obviously wrong in a science article, the source of that wrongness is almost certainly either the author of the article or you.

[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The author changed the title and the original seems to be what a lot of these comments are rallying against:

https://lemmy.ml/comment/21836273

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Making a comment about a supposed scientific error from post title alone is even stupider.

[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

This would make more sense if it was 22 vegan men with plant-protein supplement and 22 carnivore diet men with animal-protein supplement and a control of typical diet with no supple

I read the "this" as the study too. I think the "this" is referring to the title so the comment is explaining how the title is an overreach and describing what sort of study you would need to justify a title like whatever overreach was made.

I'm guessing though

[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

I think "this" refers to the posts original title, which was updated after some pushback from comments so now the comment I was replying to is a bit out of place