Hi Owen, thanks for posting these two articles. They have been genuinely very useful for a physicist like me trying to make heads or tails of psychiatric research!
I have another potentially useful trick - language used often gives away hints of bias. The recent paper on the new room temp 'superconductor' LK-99, for instance, starts with: "For the first time in the world, we succeeded in synthesizing the room-temperature superconductor". I stopped reading there - it read more like a newspaper headline than scientific writing. It is very, very easy as a researcher to see what you want to see, rather than what is actually there. Their claims might be true (though on recent evidence, probably not) but as you put it in your previous article, better to wait for the replications...
Loving the newsletter and I am amazed how frequently you can pump out these articles!
Hi Owen, thanks for posting these two articles. They have been genuinely very useful for a physicist like me trying to make heads or tails of psychiatric research!
I have another potentially useful trick - language used often gives away hints of bias. The recent paper on the new room temp 'superconductor' LK-99, for instance, starts with: "For the first time in the world, we succeeded in synthesizing the room-temperature superconductor". I stopped reading there - it read more like a newspaper headline than scientific writing. It is very, very easy as a researcher to see what you want to see, rather than what is actually there. Their claims might be true (though on recent evidence, probably not) but as you put it in your previous article, better to wait for the replications...
Loving the newsletter and I am amazed how frequently you can pump out these articles!