It would have been reviewed by Ph.D.s, by statisticians. It seems pretty credible to me.
There could be disagreements. Obviously you disagree. Your analysis gives you different results.
We're in the realm of social science; we're not in the realm of space science. I think we have to admit that. So there will be disagreements. There will be margins of error.
Yet people still say quite categorically, as though it is the gospel truth.... You talk about “garbage in and gospel out”, but there are people who, on social science issues, make categorical statements, such as that the gun registry, in all its years of existence, has never, ever—it's impossible, it's not within the realm of this universe—saved one life. Do you believe that statement?