Sure. I see 3 recurring issues with "nutritional research" I'm exposed to:
1. Wayyyyy too much industry involvement, much of it not properly disclosed (OP here is a classical and representative example).
2. Lots of research from relatively small and "less known" institutes, done by researchers with hard to verify credentials.
3. Low scientific standards. That'd include:
- Refusal to share data
- Refusal to share data analysis methods
- Not keeping the basics of a double-blinded test
- No reproduction, and not even the possibility of independent reproducibility, as the methods are described so vaguely.
- Refusal to share data
- Refusal to share data analysis methods
- Not keeping the basics of a double-blinded test
- No reproduction, and not even the possibility of independent reproducibility, as the methods are described so vaguely.
Can you link to a recent paper that doesnt run afoul of at least one of your criteria. Especially the last...
Something that takes only authors, publishers, and institutions into account sounds counterproductive.
I think it’d be better to have an agreement that only reporducible papers are credible. Ie data the paper is reported on (to include “cleaned” data) and any tools developed (software tools) must always be included. As well as funding for everything disclosed.
Ultimately though I think we may just be seeing the obsolescence of current statistical theory. Science needs hypotheses to be testable in “trustable” metrics. But there are too many loop holes if things like p-hacking are possible.