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Stephan Guyenet

What Stephan Guyenet thinks about metascience

@stephan-guyenet · 14 positions · 1 change of mind

Obesity researcher with a PhD in neuroscience, formerly at the University of Washington, and author of The Hungry Brain. Writes about the neuroscience of body weight and food reward at stephanguyenet.com.

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  1. Our readingPublishing a standing list of your own mistakes, and correcting them, is part of doing science honestly.

    Their wordsI make mistakes, and acknowledging and correcting them is an important part of how I grow.

    ↗Mistakes page for The Hungry Brainstephanguyenet.com

  2. 3 years earlier

  3. Our readingThe test of a scientific model is not whether supporting evidence can be found for it, but whether it fits the totality of the evidence.

    Their wordsThe question we must answer is not “can we find evidence that supports the CIM”, but rather “does the CIM provide the best fit for the totality of the evidence”.

    ↗Why the carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity is probably wrong: A supplementary reply to Ebbeling and Ludwig’s JAMA articlestephanguyenet.com 3rd of 4 in this piece