Agreed. And yet, you’ll forgive me and other FReepers if we question the results of any NIH “study”, including this one.
I do not trust ANYTHING the government tells me.
People have some weird “faith” in government.
Government is a political institution and every decision made at the top levels have political and economic considerations, i.e. how will this help me and hurt my opponent, how will this help my department or agency (scope of powers, budget etc), how can this make money for one of my campaign donors or bring money into my state/city?
Government science is: DDT, daylight savings time, a gay gene (never found, but still mentioned as a matter of fact), electric cars, solar farms, 20% Covid mortality rates, CFLs, and paper recycling...
Government science proves that children need to be able to have access to puberty blockers without parental consent or they may suffer from horrible psychological trauma and have increased suicide rates. Do you believe that?
Government is no more immune from shoddy science than anyone else and it always tends to prove whatever the powers to be want to have sold as reality/truth to the public.
I’m not going to link all of them, but here’s one that just recently happened again (March 10): https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/climate/daylight-saving-time-electricity.html or https://www.saveonenergy.com/resources/daylight-saving-energy/ It was just another “sound good” stupid idea by government which politicians pushed so they got their name on something, the EPA got behind it of course, etc. But it accomplished NOTHING and we have known this for 20 years now. Will it ever go away? Doubtful.
Science et al. has become a cheap whore, no more than a seal of approval, a label stamped on every idea being pushed to the masses.