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When one looks at the range of conflicting information on the internet, this C&P from link below becomes more important;
"PubMed, the database of journal articles, has over 22 million articles, and more than a million are added every year. Think about how much a person can read; I read at most two papers a day… I might read 500 papers a year. So with a million coming out and being only able to read 500, or maybe 1000, you can see only a tiny fraction of the literature. It's very easy to have a kind of selection bias; to get a small view of the literature, and have that lead you the wrong way.
Biology is complex. These journal articles are hard to interpret. There are usually many different ways to interpret any single paper. So, you really need a big, overarching view that's very close to the truth, and then you know how to interpret each paper.
Read the full article here.
There is a bunch of good comments in the article.