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berationalhereplz t1_jcrq9rp wrote

They don’t have appropriate controls - resorcinols and flavonoid like compounds, e.g., some of the cannabinoids they are testing, are notorious false positives in biochemical assays. They use vehicle control but not another structurally similar compound with no activity.

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Hashflux t1_jcuf7nq wrote

If it sounds too good to be true..

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TheThunderhawk t1_jcuswpm wrote

Maybe, but there’s gotta be some reason they’ve failed to find a correlation between pot smoking and lung cancer. Seems like it’d have to be something medicinally useful.

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Georgie___Best t1_jcxegov wrote

Pot smokers probably smoke less than the average cigarette smoker

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TheThunderhawk t1_jdocqux wrote

Some do, but you’d still expect to see some correlation, however diminished.

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drm3rc t1_jcujbkj wrote

I hope you have the qualifications of the study authors to be posturing that they have inappropriately designed the experiment. Nothing better than armchair experts criticizing published scientific literature

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aquabarron t1_jcuy6sa wrote

It sounds like he/she is knowledgeable and also has experience/familiarity in this field of study. There is no need to pose a call to authority based off what they said

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drm3rc t1_jcv87ee wrote

My comment was tongue in cheek about the all knowing redditors who critiquing published science. As if they were the equivalent of a journal reviewer/editor. Especially criticizing something like proper experimental controls, as if the reviewers didn’t notice - it’s arrogant/ignorant to the process

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aquabarron t1_jcvz779 wrote

I’m not picking up on how it’s tongue-in-cheek, it seems like a direct callout. Guess I’ll just have to take your word on it

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drm3rc t1_jcwhutg wrote

Alright fine, then it’s a direct call out because the likelihood of a redditor being in the upper echelons of immunology and molecular biology like the authors, editors, and reviewers is slim. Unless they are amongst the prestige of researchers in this field, they have no right to be so arrogant and say “they got the wrong controls”.

Watch now, he’ll be a Nobel laureate or something

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aquabarron t1_jcwmhju wrote

He could be, you don’t know. Either way, a call to authority is a weak rebuttal. If you don’t know enough to counter his assertion head on then you likely know less than him. It may be Reddit, but a user who provides seemingly informed comments like the one in question on a sub-thread of this kind of study might actually have an informed opinion. Reddit is a large community and their are thousands of scientists involved in the research of cannabis at the moment, it’s a current hot-topic of discussion, after all.

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