Comment · Wed, February 17, 2016 · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
A crazy theory on the Onnit AlphaBrain "study"
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zzxxqqyy · 71 points
Most of you probably know, Onnit likes to claim Alpha Brain is backed by science because they did a study on it (took about 2-3 years for the results to be published from the time they announced they were starting). Their study involved a whole 17 people over 6 weeks, and found small advantages in the Alpha Brain group in 3 of the 16 areas they looked for them. But there has been enough written about why their study is so flawed, so I won't get any deeper into it than that...
Since I'm already skeptical of the Onnit claims, I looked into the "Boston Center for Memory", which did the study.
First of all, it seems very strange an Austin, TX company would go all the way to Boston to run a study on 17 people. There's plenty of well respected Universities and labs much closer to home, but maybe they chose this place because of their prestige and expertise?
Well, that doesn't seem to be the case. Using public data, the Boston Center for Memory was indeed formed on Feb 17th, 2012. This is right around when Onnit was looking to have a [clinical trial](https://i.i…
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oooeeeoooahhahh · 7 points
zzxxqqyy "Redditor for 5 hours" - yet another incarnation of steal_from_asprey_ ?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
Is that a user that was posting here recently?