I thought you were being hyperbolic but the linked article and study does seem to miss the forest for the trees. Surely it's possible to acknowledge the flaws

I thought you were being hyperbolic but the linked article and study does seem to miss the forest for the trees. Surely it's possible to acknowledge the flaws of a measure without devolving into ideological and cultural warfare? > In addition, they argued that the design of the 2017 study relied on racist and colonial hierarchies and assumptions because it categorized data as “Western” sperm counts or “Other” sperm counts. > Further, the claims of decline were based on a “species optimum” of Anglophone developed nations of the 1970s, which the researchers argued was scientifically unsound. The GenderSci Lab team warned that this kind of Eurocentric focus has been used by alt-right, white supremacist, and men’s rights activists to argue that the health and fertility of men in Western nations is being threatened, particularly by feminist and anti-racist movements.