A new study on sugar can best be said to illustrate the decline in our educational system, which is failing to teach the scientific process and increasingly leaving students and professors unable to design, conduct, evaluate and report a clinical study that is a fair test of an hypothesis. That may sound like an exaggeration until you read the study. It also serves as a reminder of the importance for all of us to keep our critical thinking caps on, and not trust professional peer review or media to think for us. Most of us probably first learned about this research from a news headline: “A new study has found that we can boost our reaction times, improve our focus and self control by gargling with sugar water.” Like virtually all stories in the news today, the source of this story was a press release, Sugar boosts self-control, UGA study says, which most media reported verbatim. To Read More…..
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