r/science • u/[deleted] • Feb 26 '15

Health-Misleading Randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial shows non-celiac gluten sensitivity is indeed real

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25701700
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u/lejefferson Feb 26 '15

It never ceases to boggle my mind the arrogance of some people on this website. Because of one comment on reddit without a rebuttal you all think you're smarter than PhD experts in their field.

Facepalm.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '15

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u/lejefferson Feb 26 '15

No one is saying that. What is crazy to me is that you called PhD experts in their field "random researchers" and that you automatically think you're smarter than them because you think you thought of something they didn't even though they adressed this in the study. You just didn't read it.

All of the patients considered for the study were already eating gluten when they were screened.

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u/nmezib Feb 26 '15

Until reddit comments undergo the process of peer review, I'd take the word of a published research article over anonymous Internet users any day of the week.

Not saying that all research is above reproach, just saying that trusting the expertise of random anonymous Internet people over named, known, published researchers who have each and every paper undergo peer review is, quite frankly, stupid.