that post you're responding to was not misleading, but rather quite clear and on point bringing up individual case reports for a population-level question is i

that post you're responding to was not misleading, but rather quite clear and on point bringing up individual case reports for a population-level question is indeed pretty ridiculous, especially in the comment section of a study which addresses the question much better this also applies to sources of info: if someone is trusting individual doctors they found on the internet instead of a consensus of the population of doctors, they are also likely to mislead or be misled.