What are some of the questions that should be asked before one accepts a finding as true?


Was the study epidemiologic, intervention, or animal and cell-culture?
Was the study randomized to control for confounding variables?
Was the study double-blind to control for researcher and subject bias?
Was the study placebo-controlled to control for the placebo and Hawthorne effects?

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