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Next article will be titled “coccaine: an underused tool in high-performance boardroom negotiation”

Are the side effects and addictive potential not bad enough to cancel out the benefits here? By saying it’s under used, you are saying more people should smoke once in a while. Everyone I know who ever smoked once in a while became daily smokers eventually and couldn’t quit for years (many still smoke)

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The abstract clearly states that the paper is meant to highlight that selectively using and interpreting data can lead you to make bad hypotheses and conclusions.

This is not an article that is seriously advocating for cigarrette use.

EDIT: seriously, it's against the guidelines to ask "did you even read the article" but for real man, it's like the third sentence in the abstract.

Fair, but on the other hand, the author clearly wrote the most deliberately provocative, clickbaity, and misleading title they could have instead of an accurate, descriptive one. Satire in the titles of scientific articles is a weird choice

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