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Addiction & Recovery

RockRaven

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3. The thing about meta-analyses is that "garbage in" gives you "garbage out"

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2020, 02:01 AM

Mar 2020

There is no "new evidence" here, NYT. It's a compilation of previously published evidence, the significance (colloquial meaning) of which may be raised by the process of aggregating the data.

Which may or may not be useful, because the question(s) those studies set out to address may or may not be useful.

This reads like sensationalist click-bait. Jesus Christ, journalists should stop writing breathless articles about Cochrane publications.

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Alcoholics Anonymous vs. Other Approaches: The Evidence Is Now In. [View all] elleng Mar 2020 OP

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The thing about meta-analyses is that "garbage in" gives you "garbage out" RockRaven Mar 2020 #3

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