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The domain and big words had me expecting a scientific paper; the fact that they jump from topic to topic without driving toward anything or saying how it's connected had me thinking GPT-3; the fact that the conclusion is "we can conclude with this reflection: Breath has patterns. Schemes create behavior. Breath is a behavior. Behavior represents the person. Breath reveals the person." has me thinking it might be some kind of planted article for fake yoga marketers to cite. Maybe I just skimmed too fast and didn't give it a chance.


Yea, this is not a peer-reviewed journal in the traditional sense.

> Cureus, also known as the Cureus Journal of Medical Science, is an open access general medical journal known for its use of crowdsourcing in its peer-review process and is among the growing number of journals using prepublication and postpublication peer review.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cureus


Thanks, I assumed from "nih.gov" that this was official journal of the National Institutes of Health or something.


It is pubmed, which is a NIH indexing service for healthcare articles.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/about/

They do only include limited journals, not garbage generally. Though I'm not sure where the line is drawn.


Yea, I think this is right on the line. They are attempting "crowd-sourced" peer review, which is the sort of thing that should be experimented with (so I wouldn't want to penalize them), but it's clearly not providing the kind of filter people expect of an academic journal.


When you see the writers are all osteopaths, it tells you all you need to know.


Seems like only 60% of the writers are osteopaths, so I guess this heuristic would find it 40% credible.


No you did not skim too fast, it is judt another example of low quality cargo cult science. It looks like science, may smell like it but definitely not science. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science




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