Thank you for taking the time to connect the dots. I hope my links were helpful. I’m hoping more people get into reading the actual research papers. They can be clunky. I limit it to perusing the beginning and end to see what the paper is testing for and the conclusions they arrive at. Then I go back and see if the data lines up. Then I check to see if it’s been cited, who funded it and where the work was completed. After a while, certain names recur so you get to know who is doing quality work.

I then move around to see how else a subject has been studied, like what other angles were considered. Not all studies make sense, nor are they clean.

After you go through a few and look up some terms, you begin to trust yourself in evaluating the papers.

I compare it to reading climate change shills. There’s some pretty fancy papers out there by “credentialed” clowns that are a complete pile of sheeet.