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TIL that article about "miracle water filter" was using a 10 year old study from a blog
Found this viral post about some new filter that supposedly removes 99% of microplastics. But when I actually looked at the source they linked, it was a 2014 blog post from a guy who wasn't even a scientist. The study they kept referencing? Never actually published anywhere. Has anyone else run into these fake studies floating around?
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brooket436d ago
@nina_hall48 that "double blind trials" thing really gets me... it's like people just throw scientific words around to sound legit. I swear half these "studies" are just copy pasted from a random Twitter thread someone wrote at 2am. Makes you wonder if anyone actually reads past the headline before hitting share.
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maxl937d ago
Yeah the fake study thing is getting out of hand. I saw one floating around claiming some random herb cured inflammation tested in "double blind trials" but when I dug into it the actual paper they linked to was about a completely different plant.
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nina_hall487d ago
Right @maxl93, that's exactly the kind of thing that gets me! You spend time looking into it and find out the whole thing is just copy-pasted wrong. It makes you wonder if anyone even checks the sources anymore or if they just grab whatever fits their narrative. I've seen that with health stuff too, like someone swears by a study but you click the link and its about something totally different. It just makes it harder for people to trust anything they read online, which is a real shame cause some good info gets lost in the noise.
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