Why I Won't Talk to 'Fact Checkers' About Our Mask Study – The Daily Sceptic
The fact-checker of a powerful press syndicate asked Dr. Tom Jefferson to assist it in "debunking misrepresentations" of his recent Cochrane review finding no clear evidence masks work. Take a hike, he said.
For those not familiar, Cochrane studies are considered the best in the world and can't be dismissed by Regime cultists like they do with every other thing that refutes their brainwashing. This will force the MSM to attack Cochrane, which means either they demolish what credibility science has left, or lose and and destroy their own credibility among Regime cultists. This is gonna be more enlightening to the normies than the Rittenhouse verdict!
AFAIK, Cochrane doesn't actually do any primary medical research (ie. Actually conduct any physical solitary medical trials).
They instead are a clearinghouse of sorts where they used to do secondary meta-analysis reviews trying to collect all the best studies floating out in the ether for a clinical question. They use evidence-based medicine appraisal techniques to boil it all down in good faith to make a single recommendation on whether there's enough evidence to support a medical intervention and the strength of the evidence.
You are correct that before COVIDians the medical industry went completely mad re: ethics, Cochrane review recommendations were considered the gold standard to answer complex clinical questions.
You are right, they (cochrane) conduct and publish systematic reviews and meta analyses, not the primary studies themselves. And this is regarded as higher-order evidence than RCTs or any other method. The are regarded as best in the world.
(not all of their research is a meta analysis, the systematic review part essentially has to find enough studies that fit the criterea before that can be done)