He should have informed the audience of some of the conclusions that Dr John Ioannidis, professor of medicine at Stanford University and author of many of the definitive articles on the failings of evidence-based medicine,73 has come to: In nutrition, there has been so much observational and mechanistic research that thousands of spuriously significant associations have already been produced and translated in heavily opinionated, debated recommendations. Getting another significant result in a field that is already saturated with so many significant results offers no information gain: we still
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