Why The Bogus Argument Fails
To prove spin/statistics, it is necessary to use relativity (though there are a few nice methods which do not use field theoretic tools). In relativity, there are no local fields which are pure creation operators or annihilation operators. Every local field both creates particles and annihilates the corresponding antiparticle. This means that in relativity, the product of the free real spin-0 field has a nonzero vacuum expectation value, because in addition to creating particles and annihilating particles, it also includes a part which creates and then annihilates a particle:
And now the heuristic argument can be used to see that G(x) is equal to G(−x), which tells you that the fields cannot be anti-commuting.
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