This is the way they think...
The Scientific Method
A scientist was showing a colleague how he could make a Grasshopper jump on command. He pulled the grasshopper from his cage put him on the lab table and demanded it JUMP! Sure enough the grasshopper jumped.
He then pulled off one of the grasshoppers legs and again commanded it to JUMP! which it did. Each time he pulled off another leg and although not as well the Grasshopper jumped when ordered.
The Grasshopper was down to one leg but miraculously when commanded to jump still managed to accomplish the feat.
The scientist then pulled off the last leg and ordered the Grasshopper to JUMP!....nothing, again, JUMP!..... nothing.
The scientist then took out his log and wrote
Conclusion: “I have definitively proven that a Grasshoppers hearing appararatus is located in it’s legs.”
Ha, ha, I love that! Unfortunately, that is the kind of study that passes for serious science these days. There is so much junk science, that it’s difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff.
What I really love are the studies that claim “x” may lead to death, and when you read the story more closely, you find that the subjects of the study were in their seventies or eighties. Duh! If you are looking at people in their eighties over a period of 10 or 15 years, I can guarantee that there will be many deaths, no matter how they live or what they eat or what drugs they take.