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James Heathers

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By Eric T Trexler, James Heathers, Vahid Malbouby
| BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health
A recent publication by Abou-Khalil et al 1 explores the effects of apple cider vinegar (ACV) on body composition and cardiometabolic outcomes versus placebo. Their findings suggest that 10–15 mL of daily ACV consumption results in an average weight reduction of 7.0–7.4 kg (approximately 9% of body mass) in 12 weeks. Given the significant implications of these results for public health and obesity treatment, we carefully reviewed the data to better understand the results.
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Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides

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By Reese Richardson, Elisabeth Bik, Boris Barbour, Jennifer Byrne, Jana Christopher, Kevin Patrick, Spencer Hong, John A Loadsman, Guillaume Cabanac, Cyril Labbé, Anna Abalkina, René Aquarius, James Heathers, Solal Pirelli, Ian Hussey, David Bimler, Valentin Rodionov, Jamie Cummins, Nicolas Posner, Maarten van Kampen, Yagmur Ozturk, Ivana Resanovic, Ruochen Xian
| osf.io
![COSIG Logo][1] ### **Anyone can do post-publication peer review.** ### **Anyone can be a steward of the scientific literature.** ### **Anyone can do forensic metascience.** ### **Anyone can sleuth.** However, investigating the integrity of the published scientific literature often requires domain-specific knowledge that not everyone will have.
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Introducing the Medical Evidence Project

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By James Heathers
| Substack
It is April the 16th. I am feeling nostalgic as I started writing this exactly a year after I wrote the below. Exactly a year. Almost to the minute. If you’re reading this, it’s a few weeks later. This is because, at the time of writing, I am holding on to a great secret. If you missed the piece linked above, it is absolutely central context for the good news, and you are about to receive very good news indeed, so you should read that first. This will still be here when you get back.
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