Nick_Tarleton comments on Open Thread: March 2010, part 3 - Less Wrong
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This is pretty pathetic, at least if honestly reported. (A heavily reported study's claim to show harmful effects from high-fructose corn syrup in rats is based on ambiguous, irrelevant, or statistically insignificant experimental results.)
I'm reading the paper now, and I see in the "Methods" section:
which the author of the blog post apparently does not acknowledge. I'll grant that the study may be overblown, but it is not as obviously flawed as I believe the blogger suggested.