Seen the “98% of studies were ignored!” one doing the rounds on social media. The editorial in the BMJ put it in much better terms:
“One emerging criticism of the Cass review is that it set the methodological bar too high for research to be included in its analysis and discarded too many studies on the basis of quality. In fact, the reality is different: studies in gender medicine fall woefully short in terms of methodological rigour; the methodological bar for gender medicine studies was set too low, generating research findings that are therefore hard to interpret.”
But not actually proof of bias.
Ah young padawan, there is no such thing as proof of bias. There is merely the risk of susceptibility of it.
Exactly which is why the Ottawa whatever standard is not sufficient to discard a study. You have to do more.
Again, you really need to feed this startling discovery back to the medical community which has been using NOS for over 20 years. What a scandal.
No the medical community largely respects the short comings and uses of the Ottawa protocol. That’s what made Class’s report so insulting.