DanArmak comments on "All natural food" as an constrained optimisation problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanArmak 06 August 2014 08:35:47AM 0 points [-]

Like any area, the ethics boards hold experiments to much higher standards than things like surveys

That's only an implicit answer, and I want to be sure I understand correctly. Do ethics boards forbid trials with diet interventions? Or is the problem only that diet researchers do the wrong things and then oversell their results?

Comment author: gwern 06 August 2014 04:19:42PM *  1 point [-]

Do ethics boards forbid trials with diet interventions?

They and the general culture of 'ethics' and overrating professional expertise and correlative results forbid trials on the margin.

Or is the problem only that diet researchers do the wrong things and then oversell their results?

I don't see any 'only' about the matter.