Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Positive and negative research reults

Just found an interesting way to look up data as a negative result. By comparing the google scholar search to the BioNOT search you get a more complete understanding of what the research proved and didn't prove.
Google Scholar here: http://scholar.google.com/
BioNOT here: http://snake.ims.uwm.edu/bionot/index.php
try for example leptin stroke which gives us this in the NOT category;
the present data support neither a clear change in leptin concentration following stroke , nor any relationship with outcome
but this in google scholar;

High leptin levels are associated with stroke


So the researchers might conclude leptin might cause stroke but after stroke it doesn't do any good.

Play with this and confound your doctors

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