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What part about the genuine statistical arguments made in the article would make you believe it is satire?

I've found the reaction to this article can be pretty intense. We read this in a journal club many years ago and one of the mathematicians who was kind of new to the idea that research papers (in other fields) didn't more or less represent 'truth' said this article was _dangerous_.

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It's ironic that the paper has a correction. The title and abstract sound highly editorial, especially given that "false" is never defined. They talk about pre study odds being an enhancement but I didn't see them include those in their own paper. The fact that a study is small or the impact is minor doesn't make the results false, especially when these limitations are called out and further research is requested. You could even have a case study n=1 be valid if the conclusion is properly defined. The main problem is people generalizing from things that don't have that level of support.

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