{"id":22509,"date":"2023-08-22T14:05:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=22509"},"modified":"2023-08-26T14:58:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T12:58:20","slug":"way-too-many-meta-analyses-50-100-per-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2023\/08\/way-too-many-meta-analyses-50-100-per-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Way too many meta-analyses"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is no secret – there are way too many meta-analyses<\/a> while\u00a0 original research is missing [blog<\/a>, paper<\/a>, paper<\/a>, paper<\/a>, paper<\/a>,\u00a0 journal<\/a>, journal<\/a>). Books are about the method are also abundant. Sure, armchair research can be done without getting dirty.<\/p>\n

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Narrative reviews are much less appreciated nowadays although most of the current “systematic reviews” are basically useless as they are frequently written by “new kids on the block” and not by experienced scientists.<\/p>\n

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If the\u00a0 current pace continues, we will soon have more reviews than original studies… As another author put it forward it is a “bloated mushroom of evidence”.<\/p>\n

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It is no secret – there are way too many meta-analyses while\u00a0 original research is missing [blog, paper, paper, paper, paper,\u00a0 journal, journal). Books are about the method are also abundant. Sure, armchair research can be done without getting dirty. Narrative reviews are much less appreciated nowadays although most of the current “systematic reviews” are … Continue reading Way too many meta-analyses<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3536,4214,569],"class_list":["post-22509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-evidence","tag-based","tag-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22509"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22565,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22509\/revisions\/22565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}