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Burying the Lede (and the Data)

How researcher bias dealt with inconvenient observations in a ketogenic diet trial

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Gary Taubes
Aug 18, 2024
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As ketogenic diets move into mainstream medicine, they continue to raise questions that require clinical trials to answer. Are they safe and effective treatments for chronic diseases, as they certainly seem to be for type 2 diabetes? Will they extend the lives of those who follow them, or will they end them prematurely? Can we learn anything meaningful …

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