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Yes, I agree this is vastly over-engineered. There are commercial solar farms that actively point toward the sun, but many (most?) do not, because they may fail. Before medicine, I…

Physician, anesthesiologist speaking. Intravenous phenylephrine widely used, effective. No good in stomach. Doctors struggle to harness all the historic use and evidence for treatm…

My points all apply, even if I thought it did not warrant pursuing to the full text. I did not state the article was wrong, although I think it is quite likely to be worthless, and…

Temporary or permanent disability is also important. As I won't pay Elsevier to read this article, I can't evaluate the (likely) methodolgical failings. Even major journals sometim…

I am an anaesthetia doctor. There is, in fact, only mixed evidence of checklists actually helping in various health systems around the world. At a national level, Scotland began us…

The outcome measure was whether the participants felt good. The authors dangle the _association_ of this with actual longevity, which of course means nothing whatsoever in the cont…

The incorrect assumption your readers are making is that heart surgery is a good thing in all cases. America is the leader in futile medical procedures: it may well be a good thing…

This and many other points are left unaddressed by the authors. They fall at the first hurdle, so I hope this discussion can move on to some of the other interesting things people …

They could have gone with: "Sloppy scientists delude themselves about unlikely hypothesis" People repeating the fiction that "low blood sugar puts one in a bad mood" puts people in…

A lot of peer reviewed literature is also junk, and occasionally non-peer-reviewed papers are breathtaking. One of my favourite (peer reviewed) articles ever is: http://journals.pl…

Yes, this is another flaw, but there are much bigger flaws in their work! Also, they only fasted people for 3h. I've sucked a lot of junk out of peoples' stomachs who have had long…

People often say this, but I'm not yet convinced it has a fully or even partially physiologic basis. One way to do an experiment would be to fast someone for 48h (about when you co…

This is an interesting point. As others addressed the main issues, I would just add that dieting does not need to be continuous exercise of will power. It may just take will power …

This is one of the earliest tricks of the paper. In the initial discussion they cite numerous authors on why low glucose, i.e. hypoglycemia, affects cognition. I have seen many hyp…

I agree. And they don't even show there was a decline in their initial experiment on which their entire chain of reasoning is based: control group glucose before: 102+/-21, after 1…

I'm a physician. There are a lot of problems with the original article. The body is excellent at maintaining glucose concentration in the blood with food or with days of fasting. G…

Please also remove the unsourced (and untrue) claim about the present, too! I wrote a thesis ten years ago which examined the engineering and economics of a more simple kite/glider…