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Abstract vs. paper

Paul Ingraham • ARCHIVEDMicroblog posts are archived and rarely updated. In contrast, most long-form articles on PainScience.com are updated regularly over the years (see updates page).

“ROAR!” said the abstract of the scientific paper. “Mew!” said the actual data in the paper.

Full credit to @Geistb0t for the visual joke. I liked it so much I had to turn it into a single-image meme. I will probably find several uses for it on PainScience.com, but this it’s most obvious new home: The “Impress Me” Test: Most controversial therapies are fighting over scraps of “positive” evidence that damn them with faint praise.

See also this older one, expressing almost exactly the same idea in a very different way:

Also fun! But cats are better. 🐱

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