Cerebral Palsy maybe/maybe not

OK, take this on faith (for now) and you will be ahead in spotting misleading ‘scientific’ information. Whenever you want to find out something about what something does [NO EXCEPTIONS], you must first decide what is a reasonable scope of expectation of what it might do (even at the extreme). Do not fly to Colorado to measure the Grand Canyon and only bring a pocket ruler.

This is the RULE OF REASONABLE EXPECTATION !

Before you study anything, or get ready to hear any study, have a clear idea of what could be possible, even at the edge of broad experience.

Why? Because this dictates what is required of any tool used to measure whatever happens. Wrong tool = misinformation source.

You won't measure the temperature on Jupiter by licking your finger and pointing at Jupiter. Trekking in Antarctica? Bring a candy thermometer? Measure valgus tilt of the hind foot? Is a lateral x-ray of the foot able to even approximate a clinically meaningful deviation? No, it isn’t. And yet those 'results' were reported – and praised!! Totally bogus. How tight a measurement is needed to change the way shoes are made or reinforced? If the x-ray sensitivity can barely detect any change of 30 degrees, is THAT sensitive enough to make clinical declarations? Is it even ethical to radiate 1000 children with x-rays (before and afters) looking for a totally insensitive answer? Almost every organized human endeavor that measures things or studies things uses this rule. Unfortunately, it is given a different name in nearly every context or field of application.