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> I intuitively believe that there's truth to all of these so called myths, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

His opinions are based on claimed research while yours are based on intuition. I’d sooner trust his opionions compared to yours because he at least could be exposed as a liar if it turns out that the research doesn’t back up his opinions. You on the other hand would at worst be called naive.

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As they say, a paper is worth the peer review performed on it.

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Then the intuition of random commenters is worth close to nothing.

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The reproducibility issue show that your average not peer reviewed paper, is also worth close to nothing.

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My intuition tells me that that is an overstatement.