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I find it really strange the way “peer-reviewed” is used by the general public as some gold standard of truth. As a former academic who has been there, the process is extremely arbitrary and variable. Are people aware that the “peer” refers not to a community or a committee, but literally to one random guy or maybe a couple with zero accreditation? And that the journal editor can do whatever they want with this peer’s “review” including completely ignoring it?

The biggest problem is that they are racist. Optical blood sugar sensing devices were developed a decade ago. They were pretty accurate for pale white people, ballpark for most skin tones and don’t work at all for Black people. Good luck bringing that to market. Apple threw out the whole product and restarted with infrared.

Controlled experiments in humans are expensive, time consuming, and actually very difficult to do. Meanwhile any grad student can do a mouse model. The motivation of most academic labs is citations and grants, not useful information. Putting it together…