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I launched a protein calculator site in July. It has 14 articles, and each one has a list of references at the bottom. Nobody ever asked about them, so I never really looked. This week I went through all 32, one at a time, on PubMed. Roughly half had something off. Some were real papers with the wrong authors or journal. A few had the authors of one paper attached to the title of another. About five I couldn't find at all, however I searched. The one that bugged me most was an article saying that training a muscle more often gives a small boost to growth. I opened the paper it cited and the conclusion was pretty much the opposite. When total volume is the same, it found no real difference. So I fixed what I could, deleted the citations I couldn't back up, rewrote the sentences that leaned on them, and put a page on the site saying what I found. Two things I took from it. PubMed's exact-title search fails on punctuation, so search by author plus a couple of keywords instead. And a reference list looks trustworthy just by being a reference list. If you publish anything people might act on (health, money, whatever), when did you last click through your own sources? Curious if anyone's done this and found something worse.   submitted by   /u/SignificanceNatural8 [link]   [comments]

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