Sorry, but no. This does not pass the smell test in the slightest.
This is:
- A single author paper with no academic affiliations.
- A search on the internet for this author finds them also pitching essential oils and a wide variety of other "alternative medicine" on the Youtube/Podcast grifter circuit and not the sorts of alternative medicine anyone seriously thinks might have some merit.
- The address listed for his supposed place of practice appears to be a roadside "clini-spa" advertising beauty treatments.
- This could only get published in some low-impact journal that's solely about the purported benefits of mushrooms, even though if true this would be a pretty revolutionary finding that would be of interest to far bigger journals.
Can I prove it's fraud? No, especially since I'm not paying $25 to look at the paper details.
But unless this finding replicates from someone with credibility, I don't think this means much of anything and I certainly don't think you should be taking anything in this paper as a fact.
This is:
- A single author paper with no academic affiliations.
- A search on the internet for this author finds them also pitching essential oils and a wide variety of other "alternative medicine" on the Youtube/Podcast grifter circuit and not the sorts of alternative medicine anyone seriously thinks might have some merit.
- The address listed for his supposed place of practice appears to be a roadside "clini-spa" advertising beauty treatments.
- This could only get published in some low-impact journal that's solely about the purported benefits of mushrooms, even though if true this would be a pretty revolutionary finding that would be of interest to far bigger journals.
Can I prove it's fraud? No, especially since I'm not paying $25 to look at the paper details.
But unless this finding replicates from someone with credibility, I don't think this means much of anything and I certainly don't think you should be taking anything in this paper as a fact.