Ofc nobody reads papers saying your methods are trash; if they read it they simply ignore it.
Fwiw Pearson correlation does not assume normally distributed variables, what people usually mean is homoscedascity (normality of residuals) is an assumption for parametric hypothesis testing.
Fwiw Pearson correlation does not assume normally distributed variables, what people usually mean is homoscedascity (normality of residuals) is an assumption for parametric hypothesis testing.