Dr. David Allison
speaker
936 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 31 Mar
Dr. David Allison’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Mar 2026 with 1.
Appearances
So I think these are pretty serious problems.
I think they're pretty serious breaches at best competence and at worst integrity among some researchers.
Yes.
I've often felt that the field, many fields, but especially the field of nutrition epidemiology is often research, and I'm intentionally using the word research and not science, research as idea advertisement.
And by that, I mean, the researcher has an idea.
They think it's a good idea or an idea they want other people to believe or pay attention to.
And a way of getting people to believe it or pay attention to it is to put some data out that seem to support it.
And so a study is done not for the purpose of learning something, which might make it science, but it's done for the purpose of
reinforcing beliefs.
And so there might be some real research.
They may have really collected data, but it's not data collected with the idea of advancing knowledge.
It's just to reinforce an existing belief.
No.
Not because one shouldn't.
Well...
No, because science is fundamentally not about trust at a deep level.
The very idea of science is that it gets its privileged role in talking about the state of the world by collecting data and the methods by which data are collected.
and the logic connecting those data and methods to conclusions.
That's it.
Science is the data, the methods used to collect the data, which give them their probative value, and the logic connecting the data and methods to conclusions.
Showing 301–320 of 936 · page 16 of 47
← Previous
Next →