How MetaResearch pays for itself

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What money cannot change

• Every fact links to a paper, a trial's public record, or an official drug label.
• Numbers are given just as the scientists reported them. That includes the numbers that make the main result look weaker.
• Each finding says what kind of proof is behind it. It might be a trial where people were placed in groups by chance, like a coin flip. It might be a study of old health records or a review of many studies. It might be an animal study. Or it might be news that has not been published yet.
• Some findings have not yet been checked by other scientists before being published. This check is called peer review. Those findings are labeled that way everywhere they appear.
• Sometimes two trusted studies disagree. Then we report both, and we do not say either one has settled the question.
• MetaResearch never gives medical advice. It never tells anyone to take anything. It never describes how a person would use any substance.
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