In fact, randomised trials and systematic reviews of evidence were introduced into the social sciences long before they became common in medicine.

ECONOMIST: Social science

Every single one of the assertions he claims to be untrue is, in reality, backed up by high quality evidence, from systematic reviews of the academic literature.

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And worse, they did so by taking the raw data from one of the most widely cited systematic reviews (by Vartanian, of which Brownell was a co-author and which alleged industry bias).

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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2012, Issue 4.

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Here different regulators were provided with different trial results, and astonishingly, even today, information is still being withheld from the Cochrane Library , the international non-profit academic collaboration conducting systematic reviews of the literature on all major treatment questions in medicine.

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For the past 25 years he served as Senior Research Scientist at ETR Associates in California, USA. Over his professional career, he published the most definitive systematic reviews on the effectiveness of sex, relationships and HIV education in schools and is widely recognised as the leading world expert on sex, relationships and HIV education curriculum standards.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

The settlement stopped the time-consuming case-by-case reviews of loan documents, which had yet to reveal any systematic wrongdoing.

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