Isn't trying to discount published research with a glorified blog post the Dunning-Kruger Effect in action?

Do you think there's some element in published research that makes it automagically correct?

Papers saying that lead in petrol was totally safe were "published research", as were the papers saying that replacing tetraethyl lead with benzine made it safer.

Both of those turned out to be pretty majorly wrong, but they were "published research".

I completely agree.