Nobody has to be an idiot for this study to get published; it's all about incentives. My point is that if the data showed that male hurricanes were deadlier th

Nobody has to be an idiot for this study to get published; it's all about incentives. My point is that if the data showed that male hurricanes were deadlier than female hurricanes, this team could very will still have published a very similar paper reaching very similar but gender-reversed conclusions based upon the same laboratory experiments. That still definitely leaves open the question of how possible (3) was. Since I'm not a peer (i.e. the study is paywalled and I don't have access), I can't peer-review their figures, so I'm left critiquing from the outside based on hypothesis and conjecture. If anyone has access to the raw numbers, I'd be happy to follow their research.