tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post4621133806673305836..comments2024-03-14T23:52:09.893-07:00Comments on The Neurocritic: Policy Insights from The Neurocritic: Alarm Over Acetaminophen, Ibuprofen Blocking Emotion Is OverblownThe Neurocritichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-46392047105146756702018-02-28T04:01:27.850-08:002018-02-28T04:01:27.850-08:00NC: He's either too busy, or I wasn't pers...NC: He's either too busy, or I wasn't persuasive enough. Probably some of both, since he is busy, I wasn't as pushy as I sometimes am.<br /><br />Anonymous: I think this particular problem is more about click-bait than about selling things. Tylenol and ibuprofen are pretty cheap. Popular science articles tend to breathlessly scream the joys of the research being hyped, e.g. XXX CURES CANCER!!! when all that's been found is that XXX makes sick rats live 2 days longer even though it's known to be toxic in humans. I read recently somewhere that while some of this click-baiting is by science writers/editors, a lot of it is by the publicity department at the institution where the research was done, and the science writers/editors are just repeating what they've been told. Sigh.<br /><br />Hey NC: I hope you are hanging in there and am glad to see you blogging.<br /><br />David J. Littleboynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-25848777107825954802018-02-19T12:19:12.204-08:002018-02-19T12:19:12.204-08:00David - Thanks! Wonder why the disinterest from th...David - Thanks! Wonder why the disinterest from the replication crisis person...<br /><br />Anonymous - There could be conflict of interest on the part of advertising these OTC products on certain web/news sites, or they could just be going after clicks with sensational headlines. The Neurocritichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-49276945522949124752018-02-17T06:28:43.880-08:002018-02-17T06:28:43.880-08:00"If you exaggerate, readers will believe stat..."If you exaggerate, readers will believe statements that are blown way out of proportion. And they may even start taking doses of drugs that can harm their kidneys and livers."<br /><br />But it would boos sales. Are these statements made just out or ignorance or because of actual conflicts of interest? With consumer protection laws getting systematically dismantled in the US, what is the incentive for media and corporations against advertising harmful products that would increase their bottom line? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-67322715128003365042018-02-14T05:56:05.526-08:002018-02-14T05:56:05.526-08:00As someone rather deeply into a second language (J...As someone rather deeply into a second language (Japanese, worked as a translator almost 30 years), the whole OTC painkillers kill emotional pain trope screams "bad pun" and "stupid idea by idiots who don't understand how language works". (i.e. people who haven't read "Metaphors we Live by".) I tried to sic one of the folks concerned with the real problems causing the failure to replicate crisis on these things, but he didn't go for it. Sigh. I'm quite sure that when the smoke clears, all these "results" will simply be due to faulty use of statistics. Andrew Gelman has enumerated the ways statistics can go wrong, and these articles reek of the sort of thing that these ways of going wrong cause.<br /><br />Anyway, your "overblown" understates the incredible stupidity of this inane idea something fierce. Thanks for getting on these idiots cases, though. <br /><br />David J. Littleboynoreply@blogger.com