And do you think that your choices might be influenced by which conclusion you're hoping to draw from them?
What you link to isn't a study, it's a response to several responses to the study. It's third-hand. I can't evaluate the accuracy or construction of the analysis, or whether they properly addressed the shortcomings and made suggestions for further work needed, without seeing the actual study. The media is notorious for over-simplifying and distorting the results of good science, in both directions, deliberately or inadvertently.
Besides, you can find bad science on either side of any argument. The goal is to sort through them and focus on the *good* science. That's what things like peer review and rebuttals are supposed to be for. If someone else's study refutes a published study, then they need to provide comparable or better quality work of their own, and submit it to the same pool of journals. |
