Ep 5 Anatomy of a weight loss paper

A research paper is a piece of persuasive writing. This episode breaks down how all the pieces fit together, the expected rhetoric of weight loss research, common research methods that guarantee statistical significance at the cost of clinical practicalities, how to spot hyperbole, and how the way we usually read research papers leaves us at the mercy of the authors biases. To turn this episode into professional development with a Certificate of Completion, head to the Health Not Diets Pod Course homepage. To access all the episodes before everyone else, get supporting materials as they're released and lots of other cool stuff,

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Ep 5 Anatomy of a weight loss paper is an episode from Unpacking Weight Science by Fiona Willer.

This episode is 28:21 long.

This episode was published on Jan 25, 2019.

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