The medical research literature is rife with badly designed studies (and has a strong publication bias). This leads to, e.g. up to 70% of scientific studies not be reproduced. So even published studies are often not so reliable. One way to sort this mess would be to establish some basic criteria for assessing the quality of evidence in a medical research articlecriteria for assessing the quality of evidence in a medical research article.
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