No, you are not correct, and you're engaging in a classic middlebrow dismissal. This is a scientific research paper published in the BMJ, and a well-documented

No, you are not correct, and you're engaging in a classic middlebrow dismissal. This is a scientific research paper published in the BMJ, and a well-documented, controlled cohort study. It's pretty much the opposite of pseudoscience. The blog post is perfectly restrained and does not claim that eating spicy food will increase lifespan, instead reporting (accurately) that the two factors appear to be linked. Did you even bother reading either?