I used to kind of like PhysOrg

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Increased use of bikes for commuting offers economic, health benefits

Cutting out short auto trips and replacing them with mass transit and active transport would yield major health benefits, according to a study just published in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspec

Physical activity reduces the effect of the 'obesity gene'

The genetic predisposition to obesity due to the 'fat mass and obesity associated' (FTO) gene can be substantially reduced by living a physically active lifestyle according to new research by a large international collaboration, led by Ruth Loos from the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, in Cambridge, UK, and published in this week's PLoS Medicine.

um... this is research?

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socially funded resume padding

[snoorkel]

I forgot science is mainly a resume padding market

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recent stories

Increased use of bikes for commuting offers economic, health benefits


Physical activity reduces the effect of the 'obesity gene'

um... this is research?

I'm actually taking an inquiry research class where we have been looking at some of the locally funded studies and I can't get over how fucking absurd some of these are. How absolutely meaningless. They're more in the social sciences realm of  but you get the vibe.

Forget actually studying a phenomenon that actually might yield some critical and usable results. Can't have that...

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Yeah those studies sound like a good use of money.

I feel like this about a huge proportion of studies I hear about, which is sad, really.