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Perspective	Date asserted	The specific claim	Source	Claimants	Claimants' Organizations	Reporters	Publisher	Reference
Con	8/2/21	Though this sounds intuitively true, it is entirely without an understanding of the assessment and critical appraisal of meta-analysis, and philosophical underpinnings of role of its role within the hierarchy of evidence.	sciencebasedmedicine.org	William Paolo, MD	[none]	[none]	Science Based Medicine	[link]
Con	7/16/21	This us almost exactly wrong. Meta-analyses are like computer programs: Garbage in, garbage out. You can't turn a bunch of turds into gold through meta-analysis	twitter.com	David Gorski, MD, PhD	[none]	[none]	[none]	[link]
Con	8/4/21	I think I saw Bret Weinstein today even saying, um... you know, meta-analysis can address any issues with low quality trials. It doesn't work that way. It's "garbage in, garbage out." You can't take really poor quality data, um, from a poor quality study and add that all together and make good quality data.	www.bitchute.com	Graham Walker, MD	[none]	David Fuller	Rebel Wisdom	[link]
Pro	7/15/21	large RCTs amplify systematic error in addition to signal, whereas meta-analysis amplifies signal, and corrects for error	twitter.com	Bret Weinstein	[none]	[none]	[none]	[link]