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An issue with focusing too much on a single topic, is, "if you look for it, you will find it". With enough time and effort spent, you will find a signal. Not a true signal, just one that appeared from randomness, and if you would do an analysis of all the studies, the signal would disappear again, but they're definitively not beyond pick and choosing their studies
Basically, this https://xkcd.com/882/
As always, XKCD is spot on...
Like, I wish that was pasted below every Kennedy interview aired.