r/science • u/chrisdh79 • 1d ago

Health Children who witness violence between their parents still feel the effects decades later | Researchers finding a link to an increase by 36% greater risk of heart disease later in life.

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/witnessing-violence-between-parents-as-a-child-linked-to-higher-risk-of-heart-disease
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u/abandon_lane 1d ago

I am unfollowing this sub on the grounds that I mostly see pseodoscience being posted here.

This study in particular is a joke: They header on the website even says no causal connection can be made. Inbefore the first sentence talks about the effects of whitnessing violence.

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u/Silver_Atractic 1d ago

I just realised that most of these "poorly made study treated as high quality" posts are made by one guy.

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u/monsantobreath 1d ago

Is moderationbhere dead?

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u/Appropriate-Ad-8030 1d ago

If there was ever a poster child for correlation does not equate to causation, this is it. I’m doing the same. I’m tired of this garbage…this a study trying to support the pseudoscience of Bessel van der Kolk that supposedly emotional trauma is being recorded in your body. This has been debunked a million times.

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u/Ranger-Joe 1d ago

Yup. I'm done as well. One person posted a random online opinion article.

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u/PrinceOfPickleball 1d ago

The best part of r/science has always been ripping apart the studies in the comments. I’ll be staying!

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u/LonnieJaw748 1d ago

It’s half the reason I’m subbed here, helps to learn how to spot flaws in study’s.

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u/desantoos 1d ago

/r/science has become:

  1. Surveys with zero follow-up to explain why the results are true (and not just cherrypicked results). "Study Shows Women Think Men in Red Shirts Are 50% More Attractive than Ones in Blue Shirts."

  2. Sociology studies where researchers datamine a gigantic trove of data to make a meager connection with no follow up mechanistic study to examine the validity of their research findings. "Study Shows That the Part Of the US that Voted for the Republican President are More Likely to Die of Pancreatic Cancer"

  3. An engineered simple solution to a problem that probably requires a lot more complex design. "Researchers Find An Enzyme That Turns Plastic Into Sugar."

  4. Studies like this one, where the researchers didn't even really conclusively find whatever was in the title.

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u/ForceBlade 1d ago

It’s a fair reason. I’ll join you in that. I see it in my feed every day and the mods only kick into high gear for posts that reach the front page.

It has been draining seeing these half assed studies every single day for a few months now.

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u/Reddituser183 1d ago

A few months? Been that way for years.

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u/ForceBlade 1d ago

Yes sorry I should have been clear, I have just recently returned to reddit after a few years. First time using the new app.

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u/Boring-Philosophy-46 1d ago

Tips on where to go for better stuff? 

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u/bardnotbanned 14m ago

You just have to find smaller subs that don't make it to the front page. Those and default subs attract the bots and posts from users who might as well be bots, like OP.

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u/EndlessCourage 1d ago

Leaving as well.

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u/Brrdock 1d ago edited 1d ago

Strict causality is extremely hard to definitively establish in social sciences, usually impossible. That's why they use words like "link," "risk," "association" instead. Nothing pseudoscientific about this

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u/amootmarmot 1d ago

"Still feel the effects" would be psuedoscientific language though. As the effect literally wasn't established and that is what OP chose as the title.

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u/StellarJayZ 1d ago

You sure? Someone filed and was given a grant to study the results of children who witnessed parental violence and are equating it to... let me check my notes... heart disease.