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[-] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 29 points 1 week ago

This reporting feels careless.

https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-902165

The study was conducted as part of Alon Levy's master's thesis in public health at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

I'm not saying masters thesis are not good work, but it's not peer reviewed the same way other research is (yet).

Researchers performed a meta-analysis, a statistical method that combines data from multiple previous studies, incorporating six longitudinal studies conducted in Israel, the United States, Brazil, Finland, and Denmark. Each study included testosterone measurements taken at at least three different time points. In total, data from 118,593 men examined between 1972 and 2019 were analyzed.

This is hardly representative of "worldwide".

Feels very

It isn't about being good work or not, without actual review it is worthless as actual science unless history says otherwise. (Claude Shannon)

[-] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 3 points 1 week ago

I agree, I just don't want people replying thinking I was talking shit for no reason. It may pass peer review in the future, and the masters may have been awarded, meaning it may have at least passed his committee.

[-] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago

The other 50% is microplastics

[-] Akasazh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Bro forward influencers will pick up on this in no time.

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