expert reaction to conference abstracts about sweeteners and weight loss control / weight maintenance

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expert reaction to conference abstracts about sweeteners and weight loss control / weight maintenance

Scientists react to obesity conference abstracts about sweeteners and weight loss control.    Prof Kevin McConway, Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, Open University, said: “It’s one of the times of year when big scientific conferences occur, and so journalists and scientific commenters (like me) are faced with press releases on studies we can’t evaluate properly, because we just don’t get enough information.  There is an abstract of a pr…