Trust alone

“Peer reviewed!”

“Peer-reviewed” and published studies may not be fair comparisons.

Just because a single study or a systematic review have been published in a well-known or well-respected journal (scientific magazine), does not mean that in these research a fair comparison of interventions was investigated or that the results are trustworthy.

“Peer review” is the assessment of the quality of research by others working in the same field, before it gets published. This does not guarantee that published studies or systematic reviews are trustworthy. Assessments vary and may not be systematic. Similarly, just because a study or systematic review is widely publicised does not mean that it is trustworthy.

BEWARE of claims about nutrition interventions that are only based on where they have been published, that they have been peer-reviewed, or how widely they have been publicised.

REMEMBER: Just because single studies or systematic reviews have been published in good, peer-reviewed journals does not necessarily mean that they have investigated a fair comparisons of interventions.