Now here's the thing. Anyone with a basic understanding of probabilities could understand how to fake a study by doing just that. If I measure enough potentially interesting points over a small group of individuals, I will quite likely get at least one interesting correlation (aka, "drinking one glass of vodka a day helps to lose weight!"). But did anyone of the critics of that study ever try to do a follow-up? Did a single science journalist call the group and ask them about that study? How many measurements did they make? How did they actually chose the patients? Did these patients actually recover?