Firstly, I have a problem with meta analysis in general and the sheer volume of meta papers tends to drown the Cochrane papers. Additionally, I challenge the j

Firstly, I have a problem with meta analysis in general and the sheer volume of meta papers tends to drown the Cochrane papers. Additionally, I challenge the judgment calls about honesty of authors, be it the source trial authors or the meta authors. There is a _really_ large interpretation gap between what is written and what really happened depending on how you encode the data into the dataset and the analysis model. I am a clinical researcher. And TBH, I think it's not really possible to conduct truthful and fundamentally believable clinical research given the current social and technological environments of academic research. I'm far from the only one slaving for professors who don't know what they're doing. If I did not have a family to feed, I would not accept doing the work I am doing right now.