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Whenever a person submits a document, particularly one that outlines results of research with conclusions, that person's research is by default criticized.
The thesis is not defended properly.
Harsh criticism renders the conclusions ambiguous.
The researcher lacks the academic credentials for his work to even be considered for review at all. This last one is probably the most difficult to accept but no less true. There is a certain amount of prejudice in academic circles. Make no mistake about that.
I Criticize work with small sample sizes. I see countless studies on PUBMED that conclusions were statically significant with only a few persons used as the sample.
I want to see double blind studies with placebos with a decent sample size before I began to believe anything published.