Not taking a position on this case/article, it seems a complex situation which I can't fully evaluate.
However, research reports are written for their results, not their conclusion. The conclusions are often less formal and somewhat prone to bias. The scientific method is to consider results in aggregate to successively form a better understanding of an issue, and as such the individual conclusions in an individual report is really the least important part in a meta study or review report.
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Conclusions are why reports are written.
Not taking a position on this case/article, it seems a complex situation which I can't fully evaluate.
However, research reports are written for their results, not their conclusion. The conclusions are often less formal and somewhat prone to bias. The scientific method is to consider results in aggregate to successively form a better understanding of an issue, and as such the individual conclusions in an individual report is really the least important part in a meta study or review report.
Yup, those are common rhetorical devices for presenting scientific fact. It's like dismissing Evolution as "just a theory."