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I can't but feel frustrated reading articles like these. Do we need
research like these to realize that we have many social health problems.
We could study the link between numerous such issues like the authors have
done.Is this common sense research?
Do such reasearch have any impact?
I would like to link this to the other topic recently discussed- The
unnecessary travel to pharmaceutical company sponsored conferences. The
authors and speakers have a very big other reason - to convince themselves
and others that they produce important reasearch and to to build up their
CV. Do journals like the BMJ practice have any ethical considerations
before selecting an article for publishing? If it is not so are we fooling
ourselves by reading such journals? ...and put on weight as well.
Could this be another topic for research?!
Reading research papers like these make me fatter.
I can't but feel frustrated reading articles like these. Do we need
research like these to realize that we have many social health problems.
We could study the link between numerous such issues like the authors have
done.Is this common sense research?
Do such reasearch have any impact?
I would like to link this to the other topic recently discussed- The
unnecessary travel to pharmaceutical company sponsored conferences. The
authors and speakers have a very big other reason - to convince themselves
and others that they produce important reasearch and to to build up their
CV. Do journals like the BMJ practice have any ethical considerations
before selecting an article for publishing? If it is not so are we fooling
ourselves by reading such journals? ...and put on weight as well.
Could this be another topic for research?!
Competing interests:
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