Me: a personal anecdote does not have the weight of a body of peer reviewed articles. You: why are personal anecdotes worthless? Binary thinking is too transp

Me: a personal anecdote does not have the weight of a body of peer reviewed articles. You: why are personal anecdotes worthless? Binary thinking is too transparent. You seem to be using binary thinking to suggest that if anecdotes have any value, they must be treated as having equal value with any other source of data, including rigorously designed and executed studies.