The argument you are making is basically an argument from authority, which would be fine if you understood the nature of the authority in question, but you do n

The argument you are making is basically an argument from authority, which would be fine if you understood the nature of the authority in question, but you do not. Peer reviewed journals contain a lot of garbage. Whether this should be the case is irrelevant. There are plenty of people on HN qualified to both judge and understand the study and my criticism of it. If you cannot understand my comment or for some other reason are unwilling to comment on its substance, that's fine, but there is no reason to dismiss it out of hand. Also, there is a fundamental flaw in your logic. You keep saying that it irrelevant whether the studies methodology is valid or not, and yet this is the only evidence you give for your position. You say that I failed to give a counter-argument, and yet I directly addressed the only argument you gave for the relationship between empathy and reading, namely that study.