Assuming the papers actually dispute the original claim, you’d expect the person to whom OP’s referring to not require that approach but accept the facts and admit their wrongness upon viewing the data. The situation just ends up being ironic otherwise.
I mean yeah, i don’t know many people who can just “Read” an entire damn research paper, but usually the abstract is sufficient and taking a look at a few gathered data points. But in my experience, like you said, sometimes the paper just concludes not too strongly one way or another
Assuming the papers actually dispute the original claim, you’d expect the person to whom OP’s referring to not require that approach but accept the facts and admit their wrongness upon viewing the data. The situation just ends up being ironic otherwise.
I mean yeah, i don’t know many people who can just “Read” an entire damn research paper, but usually the abstract is sufficient and taking a look at a few gathered data points. But in my experience, like you said, sometimes the paper just concludes not too strongly one way or another