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> Is this based on your anecdotal observations, or is this opinion based on something concrete?

Not every semi-flippant comment has to be a bloody double-blind epidemiological study. Get a grip, man! Go and have a beer.

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Then why make the comment? This isn't Reddit

I think there might be an ever so tiny sliver of space between every bracketed jocular aside needing a reference to a peer-reviewed double-blinded study, and falling into redditland. Intellectual rigour applied wisely is clearly a virtue. Inquisitorial nit-picking humourlessness however is just a bore.

It was a peculiar aside - you shouldn't be surprised that you were asked about it.

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