What you describe is what the book "How to lie with statistics" covers in detail. It is a great read. I highly recommend it. A lot of so-called facts are just

What you describe is what the book "How to lie with statistics" covers in detail. It is a great read. I highly recommend it. A lot of so-called facts are just blurbs intended to support someone's manipulative agenda. Sadly, this is even true of this article. Towards the end, it begins making ugly political commentary instead of sticking to psychological phenomenon. The people who claim to have science on their side are often merely claiming to be intellectual elites and implying that anyone who disagrees with them is an idiot. It isn't scientific at all. So, it is unsurprising that it does not go over well with people who are basically being called stupid by people more interested in winning the argument themselves than in trying to have a meaningful discussion of good information.