>One study they review found that theanine worked better than alprazolam (xanax) for acute anxiety. The correct response would be, “That’s impossible, and the fact that normal scientific practices could lead to such a conclusion casts doubt on everything.” But the review sort of takes it at value and moves on.
“That’s impossible, and the fact that normal scientific practices could lead to such a conclusion reveals why we don't use single studies to draw conclusions as it's not only possible but expected that some percentage of study results are going to be well outside 2 standard deviations from the mean.”
I just wanna nitpick that because one of my pet peeves is people not realizing that you can follow the scientific method really well and still end up with outlier data.