CLAIMS vs the RESULTS of a specific study is apples and oranges. I was never claiming anything here or being for or against MT. I am speaking entirely within the context of the study itself. There's no claims in the study. The study provides a model and what happened in that model. Skepticism for the results of other trainees and other programs I can care less about. My point from the beginning is that just saying "I don't believe it. The study was rigged." based entirely on nothing more than "Company X funded it thus the data must not be legit" simply is nonsensical.
If one thinks the study is rigged, point out how so in a plausible way other than a throwaway such as "it was funded by a company so it must then be rigged." The study is public, tear it apart and find the flaws, if you can't find any then what sense is there going around implying it's a bunk.
For goodness sakes, in this thread you have USPRep making a comment that boiled down to "these subjects grew, so the HMB is anabolic." Anybody whom has looked into HMB would immediately understand that HMB is mainly a anti-catabolic. So how I've been singled out as a person defending a product or defending product claims is beyond me because from the get go I've been defending the study. Study results =/= claims. The data is the data, what claims are there in data that has already occurred and recorded?
What exactly is so hard about differentiating the study vs. claims for a product? Folks can trash MT and the product all day and night, I don't care, but seriously, insinuating that the study itself was bunk and then pointing to a blog post from Ergo Log as ones way of substantiating ones claim that the study is bunk makes no sense.