It’s just that with two distinctly different conclusions from the results mentioned from two different sources: the article authors (in the abstract) and Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief (in the news article), I place a much lower confidence in later being a reasonable reading of the research paper.
But of course we could quite safely argue about readings and interpretations indefinitely. I’d point you to Derrida and Hermeneutics if you want to go that route.
In any case, I’ll update my estimates on the likelihood of the research paper having an errant conclusion based on Weismann’s quote, and I suggest you do the same based on the evidence in the abstract—and then I suspect we have little more to discuss on the subject.
It’s just that with two distinctly different conclusions from the results mentioned from two different sources: the article authors (in the abstract) and Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief (in the news article), I place a much lower confidence in later being a reasonable reading of the research paper.
But of course we could quite safely argue about readings and interpretations indefinitely. I’d point you to Derrida and Hermeneutics if you want to go that route.
In any case, I’ll update my estimates on the likelihood of the research paper having an errant conclusion based on Weismann’s quote, and I suggest you do the same based on the evidence in the abstract—and then I suspect we have little more to discuss on the subject.