IMO it’s a lot like garlic in that smells amazing when you’re hungry and about to eat it but kind of disgusting to smell outside of that context.

I guess I have a maybe above average sense of smell/taste, or perhaps just more honed from cooking and tasting coffee and spirits for their tasting notes and such.

it was a cohort study, they had over 200k participants who filled out the study form, so even through their was a low effect size the confidence can be quite high.

Lots of kids wanting to hide stuff from their parents and cheating partners will love this feature. If you’re a journalist, activist or similar I wouldn’t trust it

Didn’t it come out that the paper was sent to preprint without consent of all the authors? If we want to steelman their case, it could be that they’re still finishing up documenting and studying some dependent variables for the recreation process.

No, but that’s mainly because the DNC fell around Biden and hasn’t moved away from him since before he was elected. If he’d decided not to run, you’ve have seen several Democrats get bigger coverage as well as be more active, with help do the DNC to make sure you knew about a few of them.