[Tyrannosaurs]

I'm sceptical about things in so far as you can be and actually achieve stuff - obviously certain things have to be taken at face value because the effort in not doing so massively outweighs the benefits you might gain from a more detailed assessment.

But if you read an article (as in this case) which has obvious flaws, not to point them out just because you can't research every drug or treatment a doctor gives me would clearly be absurd.

And I'm not saying he's a crackpot, I'm saying that in this instance he's carried out an experiment with a flawed methodology and drawn overly strong conclusions from it. The can be a (former) professor at Berkeley or a high school drop out, it doesn't change the weaknesses in what he's written in that article.