I don't think the audience for the comment was "published authors in the field" but "random people in a web forum" who make comments like yours ("Imagine telling someone you made a website and they're like 'cool, but did you even make sure it has the little green padlock?'")
In that context, it's often helpful to remind people that:
- Correlation is not causation
- It takes many replicated results to go from hypothesis to theory
(Which is quite different from "science is hard"). This is doubly-true with the current level of hype and grandstanding in science where primary and secondary sources are often clickbaity and misleading.
In that context, it's often helpful to remind people that:
- Correlation is not causation
- It takes many replicated results to go from hypothesis to theory
(Which is quite different from "science is hard"). This is doubly-true with the current level of hype and grandstanding in science where primary and secondary sources are often clickbaity and misleading.