Comment on Forget cereal bars, what's your flavor of drug in the morning?
Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.world 13 hours agoI found this review paper interesting and I don’t doubt that nicotine can have therapeutic effects but the funding source worried me.
Conflict of interest
Authors YC, XW, XZ, HT, YZ, JZ, and SZ were employed China Tobacco Anhui Industrial Co., Ltd.
The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
The authors declare that this study received funding from Technology Project of Anhui Zhongyan Industry Co., Ltd. The funder had the involvement in the study design, data analysis, decision to publish, and preparation of the manuscript.
Funding Statement The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was financially supported by the Technology Project of Anhui Zhongyan Industry Co., Ltd. (2022156), Science and Technology Projects of State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (110202201046XX-05), Startup Program of XMU and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
I read through it and just thought they were being generous with the fact that they were stating the positives as mostly people with depression and ADHD self medicating with an addictive substance that didnt really help as much as cause a feedback loop that felt better but more addictive…
The fact that they state the funders directly had involvement in the study… Oof.
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 12 hours ago
Damn. That study is toasted.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Madmen!
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 10 hours ago
I dunno what you mean :))