> but no amount of enthusiasm changes the fact that high-quality research hasn't happened yet.
> I didn't say that all positive evidence is low quality
You are now conceding that there is high-quality research, but have since made more claims which are completely dismissive of that evidence. So, while I wouldn't argue with most of the points you just made, I still feel that your basis for dismissing positive research is flawed, at best.
The purpose of linking to Reddit was to provide an encompassing list of the published papers. It isn't a list of comments from random people on the internet, it's a list of scientific journals and websites which you, yourself, would recognize as being respectable sources. Likewise, the purpose of linking to Wikipedia entries was to give an overview or example. You are more than welcome to scroll to the bottom of the page and look at the actual sources for that information. It is unreasonable to insist that someone provide hundreds of sources at the bottom of a comment, when they are already consolidated elsewhere.
As to your point about negative results being more likely or common than positive ones, I don't see how that has anything to do with the topic at hand, which is that you seem to be convinced that positive claims are either flawed or tainted to the point of being illegitimate. Even if 99 out of 100 research efforts resulted in negative outcomes, that is not a reason to dismiss the one. Just as it is not a reason to dismiss positive research based on some (or even a majority) of it being supported or influenced by third parties.
