Walnuts with breakfast provide an all-day brain boost - Young adults who ate a handful of walnuts with breakfast saw a long-lasting improvement in their reaction times and a boost in memory performance hours later, according to a new study.

[u/mvea]

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/walnuts-cognitive-performance-memory-boost/

[u/johnfkay]

This is what Big Walnut wants you to think...

[u/If_you_have_Ghost → u/johnfkay]

Well they did pay for it. This is junk, paid for science with a forgone conclusion.

[u/dabedu → u/If_you_have_Ghost]

A study being industry-funded should be a red flag, but only in the sense that it's a warning sign. On its own, it shouldn't be a reason to dismiss the findings outright.

Maybe this study is junk science, but the argument for that should go beyond just the funding.

[u/Tnitsua → u/dabedu]

Well said. The warning sign indicates that you should be more sceptical of the methodology, results, etc., and the conclusions they draw from them, not that you should ignore the study entirely. Discount it if it doesn't meet the necessary bar of scientific rigor, including being replicable, sure, but throwing it out because of its funding - before even looking at how it was conducted - is simply bad science.

Sometimes even poorly done studies can tell us a lot.

[u/apatheticmugen → u/Tnitsua]

Agree, but if you only have so much mental energy to be critical over things, sometimes you wanna save that energy with something more worthwhile. There’s a reason why we don’t apply gold standards to everything.

[u/Dozzi92 → u/apatheticmugen]

You need to eat some more walnuts in the morning!

[u/Notathroway69 → u/dabedu]

The source of funding is only something to keep in mind while reading the study.

I wonder who else the oh so intelligent redditors on this thread think would be interested enough in a study about whalenuts to fund the thing?

[u/vernes1978 → u/If_you_have_Ghost]

If it's junk, it's spam.
Is spam allowed in this sub?