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The author's comments in 2004 about the infamously bad SyFy Channel miniseries.

2004: A traffic engineer discovers that, in some circumstances, if you design the road right, you can actually make it safer by removing signs, lane lines, curbs and the like.

It inserts superfluous syllables directly into otherwise clear wording!

"Safety Last, the 1923 film starring Harold Lloyd, features one of the most iconic scenes from the silent film era."

Still good advice a decade later.
1. Are humans involved? 2. Is the sample size big enough? 3. What type of study? 4. Be skeptical of “proof” or “cause” 5. Search for caveats