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by Aurornis 6 days ago
> It's a hypothesis seeking study.

No, it was not.

It was a post-hoc analysis of a different study:

> This is a post hoc secondary analysis of the blinded, placebo-controlled Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood 2010 RCT conducted from March 4, 2009, to November 17, 2010.

Also to address this point:

> It just invalidated 8 of them and picked 1 ok-ish candidate to run an actual study in.

I don't quite know what you're talking about, since there were 11 measures looked at in this analysis and many of those measures were somewhat overlapping (various memory tests), so it's dubious to claim that the 1 significance they found means something as opposed to being an outlier they cooked up after shaking up the study data enough different ways.