Sometimes you gotta wonder about the pressure on academics to “publish or perish”.
First there was this article, originally published in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine: Non-medical Use Of Prescription Medications Associated With Drug Abuse Among College Students
College students who take frequently abused medications without a prescription appear to have a higher risk for drug abuse than those who use such therapies for medical reasons, according to a new report.
So… drug abusers are at higher risk to become drug abusers. Brilliant.
And there’s this statement of the obvious: Restricting Kids’ Video Time Reduces Obesity, Randomized Trial Shows
Results showed that watching television and playing computer games can lead to obesity by reducing the amount of time that children are physically active, or by increasing the amount of food they consume as they as engaged in these sedentary behaviors.
Let me get this straight: kids who are sedentary and physically inactive tend to gain weight. Who’d a thunk it?
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Oh geez. They really published those articles? Why am I worried about technical data? I can just pick out some obvious cause/effect and write about it!
Yes, they really publish those articles. And the first one is a very prestigious journal. I understand the desire to verify commonly held assumptions – sometimes common sense doesn’t actually make much sense – but, come on, some things are obvious.