Not everybody here knows how to critique research. They don't realize that a small sample size in a study may not be valid and needs to be replicated on large scale. Or that simply because a hypothesis is true it does not mean that it is clinically significant.

One time I tried to explain to the OP in her thread why her thinking was skewed but she didn't want to hear it. She just wanted people to agree with her. A few people did agree with her but most did not and it started out as a discussion but the OP quickly became angry and instead of disagreeing with the ideas she began attacking and name calling. Some of those who were attacked responded with anger and the thread got deleted.

People are often emotionally invested in research and cannot discriminate between research studies. For example parents of children with autism support Dr Wakefield because he "found" a link between autism and MMR vaccine. He was paid a large sum of money by attorneys who were preparing a class action suit against the pharmaceutical company that makes the vaccine and Dr Wakefield's study was poor in so many ways (sample size =12, did not communicate with IRB, poor methods used in lab that may have contaminated specimens, and on and on). There have been twelve studies with 400,000 children since that do not agree with his findings but many parents disregard those studies and continue to support Dr Wakefield because they so very much want an answer to what causes autism that they will choose poor research that gives them a [false] answer than believe good, large scale research that disproves their belief.

It's the 21st century. The world has been transformed by scientific knowledge yet suspicion of science seems never to have been higher. Fear and anger have obliterated rational discourse. Facts and evidence are seen as just a matter of opinion, rather than a proven truth and blind unreasoning belief is considered as valid as critical thinking.

I know that the delusional people here cannot understand that their thinking is not true. I don't understand why some people cannot learn new ideas and change their thinking unless like the parents of autistic children they are emotionally invested in an idea and would rather have a wrong belief that makes them "feel" that they have power over an illness.