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That's just not sufficient. I didn't even make it to the last paragraph and many readers won't make it past the headline. Up until that paragraph, the author seems to be building us up towards accepting the results.

Why bother writing an article on such a flawed study?

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For the sake of linkbait, surely.

Blog author even calls this study "the most compelling evidence", only to correctly recognize that it's total shit in the final paragraph.

I'm all for writing an article on a bad study (sort of like a bad album review), but the opinion of the author should be clear from the outset.

yeah, agreed.

Yes, I did agree. But the funny part is that the article author didn't seem to read the paper since the paper did address those control group concerns.

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