Message #46186

[mccoy]

Steve, what researchers typically do when they want to dive into a topic such as 'effect of caffeine on memory' is a thorough search on Pubmed or google scholar or other search engines which scan the medical literature. They collect a number of articles on the topic, read them, study them, evaluate them, and often write an executive summary.

Some people, called 'fact-checkers', do that as a job to support doctors and writers on medical literature.