Mikel Maria Delgado, PhD @mikeldelgado.bsky.social 路 Jul 16 How science should NOT be done: testing the effects of CBD on cat fear...by scaring the cats so much they urinated...and no IACUC (institutional animal use committee) approval? Why? oh, because it's a predatory MDPI/Animals journal...calling @amcell.bsky.social www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15...
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Add it to the long list of examples....
This is awful!! Those poor cats! On this note, a group of my colleagues carried out CBD safety and efficacy tests for both cats (no effect) and dogs (some effect) exposed to everyday stressors (note no unwanted peeing effects!). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39559539/ academic.oup.com/jas/article/...
I hate people.
general advice - please create an entry on pubpeer.com about this, so the the problem is documented. There are many other examples about mdpi on pubpeer.
Gross!!!