Your comment was not in the category of an armchair dev/hater, otherwise I wouldn't have replied :)
I'm working on a "pivot" of paperzilla, which is paper discovery. Basically you subscribe to a research topic and you get a daily list of possible interesting papers for you in summarized form. If you are a scientist or following new science, please let me know. I'd love to hear what your daily ritual is for finding new papers and what tools you use (if any). You can reach me at mark at paperzilla dot ai.
Hmm interesting. I agree with you 100%. It is funny because I made this as an aside for another project I'm working on, paperzilla.ai, which I made exactly to solve this problem: people claiming stuff by pointing at a paper (while not providing it). Citation Needed was tech-driven: when I found out I could find a paper backing up a snippet of text, I thought that was pretty cool. But you are right, it can be used to back up any claim. Thanks for your response!
I'm one of the people behind stekpad.com. Next to this free alternative for hackpad (closing down in 9 days!) we also started maintaining the source code actively and provide a number of open source tools.
Here are the links to all open source repos that were used to create stekpad:
There is lots of proof now that obesity is not caused by "more calories in than calories out", it is caused by hormone reactions to what you eat (esp. insulin). Just read the books by Gary Taubs for zillions of details and references to studies.
So the "eat less" claim in this article is again back to the old MD advice, "eat less and move more". Not going to work if you don't look at your macronutrients.
> the formula is still as simple as calories in - calories out = weight loss.
That is only simple in theory. To make that actually work for yourself it helps to have an approach like a high-fat, low-carb diet (which suppresses hunger e.g.).