"I've been a sysadmin operating RabbitMQ and Redis for five years. I've found Redis to be a great deal less trouble to administer than Rabbit, and I've never lost any data."
See why I care about this?
It is plain and simply unethical to do such research on human subjects, regardless of how many other bots there are out there.
It is a matter of principal and ethical responsibility. I would have expected especially researchers to be conscious of this.
The world has been full of snake oil salesmen since the dawn of time, all with a highly persuasive sob-stories.
If you rely on shortcuts, like anecdotes or 'credentialism' for those who profess to be experts, then you will get rolled over regularly. That's the cost of using shortcuts.
That information may be fraudulent and put forward by this season's Dr Andrew Wakefield has to be factored into any plan for using external sources.