  There are generally two types of Wick contractions in lattice QCD
calculations of a correlation function --- connected and disconnected ones. The
disconnected contribution is difficult to calculate and noisy, thus it is often
neglected. In the context of studying tetraquarks, hadronic molecules and
meson-meson scattering, we show that whenever there are both connected and
singly disconnected contractions, the singly disconnected part gives the
leading order contribution, and thus should never be neglected. As an explicit
example, we show that information about the scalar mesons sigma, f0(980),
a0(980) and kappa will be lost when neglecting the disconnected contributions.
