Then shouldn’t it be weirder? Like, having full open data, not trying a month specifically and varying this, etc?
I think doing this kind of thing is really important because trying to make everything safe means we frequently don’t do useful science
That is a very good point, and I agree.
Two things on this point:
It did not seem to me that SMTM marked this as clearly unsafe, but I am not neutral enough to know. Just: There is a difference between “quit if you feel unwell” and “This might have drastic negative impact on you you will not even notice or feel”
While mad unsafe science is cool, it is a good idea to make it safe_r_. For instance, SMTM did tell us to take vit A and B12, which was warranted. The same way, other precautions, specifically about how to quit the diet, could have been mentioned
What I mean is that if the goal was just to explore, and modifying the diet while doing it is not a problem, then it would have made more sense to have access to everyone’s data as they were doing it (at least between participants). Also have more ways to communicate between participants to share our experience, tips and tricks, etc...
I wouldn’t have made participation mandatory (and I expect you wouldn’t either) but a way for participants to opt-in to a community does seem valuable. Maybe they thought that was covered by twitter? A lot of people did seem to be discussing it there.
Then shouldn’t it be weirder? Like, having full open data, not trying a month specifically and varying this, etc?
That is a very good point, and I agree.
Two things on this point:
It did not seem to me that SMTM marked this as clearly unsafe, but I am not neutral enough to know. Just: There is a difference between “quit if you feel unwell” and “This might have drastic negative impact on you you will not even notice or feel”
While mad unsafe science is cool, it is a good idea to make it safe_r_. For instance, SMTM did tell us to take vit A and B12, which was warranted. The same way, other precautions, specifically about how to quit the diet, could have been mentioned
It might be that I over-updated though.
What data do you think they should be sharing that they aren’t? They did put a dataset up somewhere.
Right, I must have phrased it poorly.
What I mean is that if the goal was just to explore, and modifying the diet while doing it is not a problem, then it would have made more sense to have access to everyone’s data as they were doing it (at least between participants). Also have more ways to communicate between participants to share our experience, tips and tricks, etc...
I wouldn’t have made participation mandatory (and I expect you wouldn’t either) but a way for participants to opt-in to a community does seem valuable. Maybe they thought that was covered by twitter? A lot of people did seem to be discussing it there.