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"In scientific and academic language, may is often used to talk about typical occurrences - things that can happen in certain situations."

https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/22134/can-could-vs-m...

I would love a huge study done on say NY Times/Wapo and a few other sources and going back through their science reporting through 2000-2010. Focusing on articles like this and see if how wrong/right they were. Or, if it's so inconclusive, that we really shouldn't be letting scientists push out their work willy nilly without establishing better data/proof. Science journalists seem to take these education PR departments at their word a bit too often.

I'm working on something to track stuff like that. What would you consider evidence of a study being disproved?

May usually means 'has some evidence behind it'. Heuristic: the probability of it being true should be high enough to be worth talking about.

Reminds me of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...