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thomasahle on June 14, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps We...

It wasn't actually a fake study. That's the point.

They used the same statistical methods as too many 'honest' groups out there, and got results thereafter.

bjourne on June 14, 2015 [–]

I disagree. The study was fake because the intent was to deceive. He used flawed methods, but could have used 10 times as sophisticated methods and still would have been able to publish completely invalid results.

olifante on June 15, 2015 | [–]

I wasn't a fake study, it was a dishonest one.

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