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By lying. Forgot that part.
How are people supposed to trust studies when stuff like this happens? It erodes trust when studies lie.
By reading the study and not relying on someone's interpretation of it.
The issue is relying on that shifts the bulk of the work to the reader. Most people don't have the time (or let's be honest, the knowledge and experience) to properly go back through the sources and look at the raw data and conclusions to make your own assessments.
Thats the problem, to properly understand studies, you have to have a solid background in that field. You cant expect the average person to have knowledge in any particular subject.
Seems like it was an oversight, not an intentional lie. If somebody calls an airsoft rifle a firearm, that's colloquially appropriate, even if not legally correct.
Language is muddy. That's life.
Who on earth calls an airsoft gun a firearm? I can understand gun, but firearm is a formal term. Its not colloquially correct, and even if it was, a study should know the difference.
The definition of firearm is not nearly muddy enough to excuse that.