You probably still want to at least look at the research yourself, trusting other "off-hand" comments is, uh, ironically, akin to the moral from the "off-hand" parent comment in this case

Let's hope the poster isn't lying or wrong

We can always have Bing read the study for us and ask what it thinks.

It thinks that we're bad users :(

But it’s such a good Bing :)

Trusting a random commenter to dismiss the contents of an article for you seems almost as bad as only reading the headline. In both cases you're putting full faith in someone else to summarize the article in a way that serves their interests more than yours.

Sometimes it's just the way they do it, that counts.

I skimmed the abstract and would say the comment isn't quite fair to the study. I'm glad I spent the time checking it out myself.

I personally find the parent comment to be way too dismissive. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater.