What is wrong with the meta-analyses on honey and oral mucositis due to cancer therapies?

CONCLUSIONS: It is impossible to determine the underlying reasons why these meta-analyses were able to pass the peer-review system without the request for adequate improvements prior to publication. According to the literature at least 7% of the included meta-analyses revealed false results, but it was assumed that due to limitations of external validity and to the decreased likelihood of updating positive meta-analyses, the true proportion of false positives in the meta-analysis was likely to be higher. However, it is crucial that when severe flaws in meta-analyses are detected that they be reported or the meta-analyses are withdrawn, otherwise the normal reader will take the results as given. PMID: 32147054 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Complementary Therapies in Medicine - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Tags: Complement Ther Med Source Type: research