Alas, even the rodent studies are not rigorous.

Activist "science" is how you turn "hard to argue with" cases into "there's plenty to argue with" ones.

I would say it's even better: if flushes out the engineers who never bother to grasp what "science" actually referred to. you'd think empirical observation and iteration would be an easy to grasp concept, but there are individuals that people get tripped up by something unidentifiable. you can spot a mile away. You can see it here, too. Not sure what causes the mental block but it seems to form serious social impediments.