Peter Attia· MD
the invitation goes to other investigators who have already found results that square with the beliefs of the inviting investigator so there may be 3 000 teams out there and the invitation goes to the 100 teams that have claimed and believe that there is that association and then these data are cleaned combined and analyzed in in the way that has found the significant association already and you have a conclusion with an astronomically low p-value that here it is we have concluded that our claim for a significant association is indeed true and here's a large meta-analysis now this is equally misleading or even more misleading than the single studies because you have cherry-picked studies based on what you already know to be the case and putting them together you just magnify the cherry picking you you just solidify the cherry picking