Did they turn out to be right? Maybe, I'm not familiar with the research here, but no evidence for that has actually been posted. This study being untrustworthy doesn't make it prove its opposite instead.

[ On second thoughts, retracted ]

While it's not great I vastly prefer that sort of not great behavior to achieving the same results by being one of those people who has crappy opinions and then just cherry picks links to back them up when called out on it.

Probably a good call on the retraction TBH.

Speaking of luddites, I've recently stumbled on posts that point out that the framing of "luddites" was intentionally misleading and that it was never being against technology but how it was wielded.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/we-should-all-be-luddites...

He can just be a statist.

It kills stuff...let's consider a poison that has killed the majority of life on Earth. I can't find any LD50 numbers for it but prolonged exposure to more than 30 kilopascals of it is considered unsafe. Oxygen.