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Are #Cochrane reviews the gold standard?
that's a widespread belief
Many of them are really good. Some of them are pretty awful. And the vast majority are meh.
An old rant here breaking down one of their sillier SRs on #Hypertension: https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2018/08/29/why-cochrane-is-wrong-about-hypertension-very-wrong/
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Of course @hildabast has written way more and knows way more about this, esp the Peter #Gøtzsche affair and the Nordic #Cochrane center http://hildabastian.net/index.php/8-secondary/70-a-timeline-of-gotzsche-and-cochrane-collaboration-conflict?start=6
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So when you read this SR https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full#CD006207-abs-0002 ...it is quickly clear which category it falls into
Several people have done a nice job pointing out the gaping holes
and now
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See this NYT piece from Zeynep
Even #Cochrane is walking back...https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/opinion/masks-work-cochrane-study.html
Hilarious. Sad. And showing there is absolutely no reason to put up #Cochrane reviews on a pedestal
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MD @hswapnil@med-mastodon.comHere is the official #Cochrane library statement on the #mask SR https://www.cochrane.org/news/statement-physical-interventions-interrupt-or-reduce-spread-respiratory-viruses-review
Not linked directly to the SR itself 
@hswapnil how would you have worded the plain language summary?