their study is flawed, the scientists involved went almost exclusively onto right-wing programs to hype their biased results, and they didn't disclose important financial ties - particularly the jetblue guy that wrote an op-ed for the ben shapiro website (damning imo). you can whine about this article being clickbait but it's incredibly well-written and sourced.

>The whistleblower complaint made note of the authors’ media appearances, observing that they “coordinated the online publication of a non-peer-reviewed pre-print with multiple press appearances” and “continued to promote the results of this and subsequent studies despite severe criticisms of their pre-print from multiple statisticians.”

Indeed, scientists immediately attacked the high-profile study’s recruitment of participants and data analysis, with one calling it a textbook example of “how NOT to do statistics” and another saying he was “alarmed at their sloppy behavior.” One major cause for alarm was that the authors were overly confident in their test’s false-positive rate.