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Because "large" here is still "very tiny". Large with respect to "p-values" isn't the same as "actually large". Equating the "positive results" to "winning the powerball" is not a fair comparison. If there were Powerball-level results here we wouldn't need further studies to confirm the effect exists.



Radin claims in his meta analyses he gets powerball level results, much beyond that in fact.

Either these are some quite incompetent and/or deceitful researchers, or they have found something we currently cannot explain.




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