Comment Re:What does the science say? (Score 2) 50
The author concludes that had they looked at the same research, they likely would have come to the same conclusions.
Yes, that's the point, and the other links support the point in an ordered fashion. Your analysis of the links in question explain why that is the case. The USA deliberately avoids looking at evidence in general, that's our SOP. For example when you see claims made by US agencies that there are no studies that show or there is no evidence that something is true, what it means is that they are discarding all foreign studies which do not check meaningless boxes that are required for our agencies to consider them valid.