Biotech Values

[poorgradstudent]

OT: Preciouslife

Many of these "articles" are forwarded to these sources by the PR arm of the hospital / research institution. The internal vetting of these "newsworthy" articles at the institution is next to nil, and there is a team of people who have the job of making the most mundane research article sound "new to you" (like the old nbc reruns).

Hence silly PRs like children with ADHD who are appropriately medicated do better in school than those who aren't appropriately medicated. Duh. Further digging into that one would have revealed that it was simply a retrospective database search and nothing novel or prospective. Yet the PR did well to hide this fact.

There was also one a while ago about how children on exercise bikes (or whatever it was) while playing video games gained less weight than those not engaged in any exercise. Duh.

So just an fyi... the PR departments at many of these reputable institutions are complicit with the "researchers" who forward their mundane results to them. I know. I'm at one