Seriously? Gold Defeats Ozempic, Flossing Fights Stroke, And AI Fools Editors

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Gold Beats Ozempic for Weight Loss

No, it’s not the prospect of winning a Golden Globe award that makes the candidates shed enough fat to float a freight train.

Headline:

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Study:

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The headline and the study are just two days old, so you might not have seen them yet. But I suspect you will.

The study was done in Egypt, a country famous for having 40% of its papers red-flagged for potential fakes [1]. It tested the effects of gold nanoparticles vs. Ozempic in obese rats [2].

Contrary to the media scribes’ headline, the experiment was not about weight loss. It was about weight gain. On their 9-week journey from the rodent equivalent of normal weight to diet-induced obesity, the rats received either Ozempic or gold nanoparticle injections, or none of those.