With some 40 odd years of clinical research behind me I can safely say that the study is total BS and no-one should ever have supported it: Hamilton and anyone sponsoring it haven't a clue how to conduct a reputabe scientific study. This would never get published except maybe in the Beano or Daniel and Emma's memoirs?
That NYT article is pretty bad. Quotes Joyner and Seb Coe (the latter not directly). Very strange that he isn’t aware that there are other studies showing exactly the opposite and didn’t go to someone who had read and could critique it in depth. Science journalism does involve reading the work (that used to be what I did). Clearly didn’t really in this case.
Unfortunately, I find that all science journalism in ordinary news contexts is so credulous that you can assume it is categorically false and be right almost all the time.
Today's NYT magazine section has such an article on Semiglutide (Ozempic) - there's not a mention of why people are obese, or why they have multiple inflammatory problems, just that it would cost a Trillion dollars to medcate the US.
It's a commercial.
The NEJM itself has made terrible mistakes - its hard to get science - a moving target - right all the time but you must always assume that popular writing on science is bad, false and biased, then apply basic critical questions. Good science writing is amazing and rare.
In Biology and Medicine recently Atul Gawande, Oliver Sacks (the late), Siddharta Mukherjee (New Yorker), Carole Hooven, Armand Marie Leroi. I've never read anything in NYT even close. Particularly heinous are Wired and the ilk. Scientific American used to be good but it clearly has collapsed, "Science" is too technical for most people.
If you believe male human beings are in any way female, you are akin to believing Santa Claus can fly around the world, being rocketed by flying reindeer and delivers presents to all the good boy and girls around the world.
Thanks Sarah for exposing the anti-scientific methodology used to twist the facts to get a forgone conclusion that would satisfy transmaniacs.
Sports Physiologist Ross Tucker (Actual Scientist) also critiqued this "study" in The Telegraph.
With some 40 odd years of clinical research behind me I can safely say that the study is total BS and no-one should ever have supported it: Hamilton and anyone sponsoring it haven't a clue how to conduct a reputabe scientific study. This would never get published except maybe in the Beano or Daniel and Emma's memoirs?
That NYT article is pretty bad. Quotes Joyner and Seb Coe (the latter not directly). Very strange that he isn’t aware that there are other studies showing exactly the opposite and didn’t go to someone who had read and could critique it in depth. Science journalism does involve reading the work (that used to be what I did). Clearly didn’t really in this case.
Unfortunately, I find that all science journalism in ordinary news contexts is so credulous that you can assume it is categorically false and be right almost all the time.
Today's NYT magazine section has such an article on Semiglutide (Ozempic) - there's not a mention of why people are obese, or why they have multiple inflammatory problems, just that it would cost a Trillion dollars to medcate the US.
It's a commercial.
The NEJM itself has made terrible mistakes - its hard to get science - a moving target - right all the time but you must always assume that popular writing on science is bad, false and biased, then apply basic critical questions. Good science writing is amazing and rare.
In Biology and Medicine recently Atul Gawande, Oliver Sacks (the late), Siddharta Mukherjee (New Yorker), Carole Hooven, Armand Marie Leroi. I've never read anything in NYT even close. Particularly heinous are Wired and the ilk. Scientific American used to be good but it clearly has collapsed, "Science" is too technical for most people.
It's very hard.
If you believe male human beings are in any way female, you are akin to believing Santa Claus can fly around the world, being rocketed by flying reindeer and delivers presents to all the good boy and girls around the world.
Whatever possesses these dicks to want to compete against women in the first place.
Whatever possesses these dicks to want to compete against women in the first place.