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>>22949608
>don't believe studies, Believe whatever you want instead
Obviously believing whatever you want is better than believing studies.

If you believe a study, how many people do you have to believe are acting in good faith? Not only all the researchers working on the study, but also all the participants, the people funding the study. You also have to trust all the previous work in that research field, all the theoretical assumptions that go into that fields methods .etc., (this is especially problematic in soft sciences studying nebulous concepts like "relationship happiness"). All up, this is easily thousands of people you have to trust. You have to believe all of these people are honest, reliable, accurate seekers after truth without any kind of malicious agenda. And you can't even conclusively prove that these people exist.

Whereas if you believe what you want, the only person you have to trust is yourself. Therefore, believing whatever you want is clearly more intellectually defensible than believing in science.

The rest of your post is just bluster and really is beneath contempt, but i just wanted to present the case to you that obviously you should believe what you want rather than believing studies.