yeah it’s honestly upsetting, i would like r science to be about science but instead it seems to have mostly a large bias towards sensationalism and a small bias towards neoliberal politics

not sure how that isn’t sound. there’s a whole field of statistics dedicated to controlling for this type of statistical error within studies, why would it not be true of studies on a meta-level?

i agree that most studies i see here are poorly designed. so you’re right, you do enough poorly designed studies you’ll find some spurious correlations.

this is so true and is a major confound in basically all of these studies

sounds like you’re genetically predisposed and so is your wife, which would make your kids predisposed. I don’t think epigenetics is necessary to explain; although i’m honestly not sure what you mean by epigenetics here. best of luck with your diagnoses

this is just spit balling, but if you do enough studies you’ll find some spurious correlations