[bognition]

The issue is that we don’t have the primary data. This stuff is messy and the systems at play are extremely complicated. Often one of the most challenging parts of bio sciences is figuring out a test that will cleanly show a result that is true.

Without directly testing for a connection it’s extremely rare to get unexpected data that confirms an alternate hypothesis.

Even if the statistical tools are there, they can’t make up numbers that we haven’t collected yet.