Drowning in Evidence: How to Read a Meta-Analysis Without Getting Fooled

We're taught to treat systematic reviews and meta-analyses as the gold standard. They sit at the top of the evidence pyramid, so when one lands in our inbox saying an intervention works, we tend to believe it and move on. But what if that instinct is exactly the problem? A new editorial from two of the most respected methodologists in sports medicine makes an uncomfortable argument: the explosion of meta-analyses in our field has outpaced the rigor behind them. Sport-related meta-analyses now...