alt Hacker NewsMedical professionals have a history of not necessarily having complete understanding of the maths they use in their work. Classic example of a nutritionist 'inventing' the trapezoid rule for calculating area under a curve, and then naming it after herself. And then many many other medical people unironically using said method and citing her.
A) these aren’t “medical people”, they’re neuroscientists and psychologists. Comparing them to a nutritionist seems especially cruel!
B) “some people have been wrong before” is not a reason to think you know better than the authors of an upcoming Nature article based on a few layperson-targeted paragraphs summarizing the paper from a very high level.