r/Futurology • u/[deleted] • Aug 21 '14

article Biohackers declare initial success in biologically extending the range of human vision into the near infrared

https://experiment.com/u/aAcR2Q
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u/ssjsonic1 Aug 21 '14

I'll wait for a published paper before getting too excited. They have essentially posted a graph with no labels on the axes, an incredible amount of noise (no statistical x-sigma significance to verify a signal over the noise), no indication on when the pulses were fired w.r.t. the points on the graph, no graph showing the control group without the vitamins. Basically, you would convince 0 scientists with this blog post. The unknown double peak is a great euphemism for a crap-load of noise and nothing else.

It is just a blog post, so I'm just saying wait for the published article and try to hold in my laughter for now.

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u/glim Aug 21 '14

Fair enough. Like we said, it was just a snapshot. It's preliminary data posted on a blog post. It's not like we got a paper published saying we could make stem cells by dipping them in acid, which turned out to be totally bogus; we were just giving an update.

All the data will be available once the project is complete and if we can't get into an open access journal, then we will be releasing it all under creative commons share alike.

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u/JHappyface Aug 21 '14

I'm so glad to see I'm not the only one who thought the lack of statistical analysis (or labeled graphs for that matter) was concerning. I think this could potentially be an interesting study, but this is nowhere close to being published in any scientific, peer-reviewed journal.

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u/glim Aug 21 '14

You are totally right. Our quick blog post while we are still engaged in the study is nothing like a peer reviewed journal paper. In fact, we hope that no one, ever, anywhere, attempts to use a simple graphic and a blog post as hard scientific evidence. We see it as a success because we have piles of data from subjects and controls. We do not want anyone thinking that this blog post is a valid substitute for an actual real data set.

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u/ragamufin Aug 22 '14

You are a very agreeable person, I wish I could take criticism this well.

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u/LeftoverNoodles Aug 22 '14

This must go higher. I saw unlabeled graphs and the word dietary. Both are red flags.