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Science is about testable, falsifiable hypotheses. It's important to question what we think we know, and how we know it.

"Argument from authority" isn't scientific. We can simultaneously believe (a) that well-respected researchers from a well-respected institution are capable of carrying out well-grounded research and (b) that research is in principle understandable with sufficient interrogation. Authority supports (a) but does not render (b) unnecessary.

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I think his point, though not well made, is that it’s likely parent is not the first to ask this question and that the researchers have likely already thought about that.

Yeah, both this and the original question are good points. I wonder what the paper itself has to say.

The early bits are pretty readable so far [0], but I doubt it calls the original question out quite as succinctly as it was asked. Lots to mull over though!

[0] https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2019.2149

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