I think it's more that we ignore common sense a lot as a society and only believe things that are empirically backed by data and have been published in a journa

I think it's more that we ignore common sense a lot as a society and only believe things that are empirically backed by data and have been published in a journal somewhere with reproducible results that can be cited. This is essentially the "no shit" answer from the author. I would be lying if I said it wasn't also my initial thought to the productivity news when I read the headline recently.