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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tiger" data-source="post: 131538" data-attributes="member: 353">Fishy, you began this exchange by calling what Professor Andrew Huberman—a tenured neuroscientist at Stanford —was saying about creatine “probably bullshit.”That was your opening move: dismissive, zero citations, and a puffed-up anecdote about your gym days.Now, several peer-reviewed studies and a bit of pushback later, you’ve pivoted to a lecture on academic standards, the finer points of Raven’s Matrices, and a sudden reverence for nuance and experimental design. Cute, but wrong.Let’s set the record straight:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Reproducibility absolutely does mean what I think it does—it refers to the successful repetition of results across independent studies. And guess what? The cognitive benefits of creatine have been replicated across dozens of experiments over two decades—across different populations, using different testing models. That’s not just “one old paper,” that’s a body of literature.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The idea that “old = invalid” is undergraduate-tier thinking. Foundational studies are cited not because of their age but because they hold up under scrutiny. The Rae et al. study (2003) you’re hand-waving away has been cited hundreds of times and corroborated in subsequent trials, like:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Avgerinos et al., 2018 – meta-analysis, positive cognitive effects across age groups.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">McMorris et al., 2007 & 2010 – benefits to working memory and reaction time under stress and sleep deprivation.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Allen et al., 2012 – confirmed creatine’s role in enhancing oxygen utilization in the brain.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">As for RPM and your foray into the autism spectrum—yes, pattern recognition is one subset of intelligence. No, the presence of outliers doesn’t invalidate the average findings. Studies control for this. If you’ve got a statistical critique, cite it. Otherwise, you’re just scattering red herrings like confetti.</li> </ol>As for the "take it up with the Academy" line?  - You don’t get to lean on the authority of institutions after dismissing one of the top neuroscientists in the world as a snake oil peddler. Either science matters, or it doesn’t. Pick a lane.What you are doing is simply a lot of armchair contrarianism dressed up in half-digested pop science. But underneath the gloss, the reality remains unchanged:Creatine is one of the most well-researched, safe, and cognitively beneficial supplements available today, with data to back it far beyond your dated locker room anecdotes.Thanks for the bro-science TED Talk, though.</blockquote>

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