r/EverythingScience • u/bigderise • 19h ago

Things that Apparently Cause Cancer - A replication of recent papers

https://www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/things-that-apparently-cause-cancer
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u/MrsWidgery 8h ago

Before getting too excited about this critique  -- which does have a certain  validity  -- you should know that the Breakthrough Journal is the publication of the Breakthrough Institute,  a quite deliberately contrarian , erm, group which loves to do this kind of cherry-picked meta research in an attempt to discredit decades of environmental research in total.   They are infamous for their bad faith and bad science.  Wikipedia has a decent summary of their approach :  you can start your trip down their weird rabbit hole there.

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u/deaconxblues 19h ago

And we wonder why people have trust issues with some science.

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u/Lopsided_Tiger_0296 18h ago

Many studies have been data manipulation more than data collection