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There is no rational reason to justify throwing out the entire analysis over one mistake.

• AshamedCaptain 3y ago
  I said "Casts doubt". In the same way a typo in the headline, a logic error in the first bullet point, a misconception in the introduction, etc. casts doubt on the rest of a publication. And this was no simple typo, as there was an accompanying and erroneous justification (which btw also hints to a lack of knowledge in the topic). This bullet was practically the easiest to verify out of the entire article and was already showing a contradiction. You might enjoy publications where fact-checking is not high in the list of priorities of the author (this article contains a disclaimer saying as much), but most "rational" readers should be interested in knowing how light the fact-checking indeed was, specially in a topic as important as this.