If I were a member of the public in Australia (which I am) I would be outraged to know how much "vested interest" has gone into our national food guidelines. Especially under these circumstances where our collective public food-health policies have not met their objective!https://twitter.com/rosestant70/status/1004562511205560321 …
I'd assume because cataloguing every piece of bias for each study would push the document out into 10,000s of pages. Most bias questionnaires are ~3 pages at least
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Ok so there’s holes in the methodology bc of practicalities? At minimum, in conversations about ADG - the “robustness” and “done by professors” needs moderating?
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It's not a hole in the methodology. the bias is taken into account in the grading - industry funding would push the score down somewhat, alongside other things that might push it up Cochrane has some great documents if you're interested in how it works http://training.cochrane.org/resource/grade-handbook …
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as a first step. It will be time consuming thought bc the "spreadsheet" of evidence did not identify "industry funded" as yes/no.
. So why didn't they include that info in the SR?