The study, published today in BMC Environmental Health, is the first to apply the rigorous Navigation Guide methodology to systematically evaluate the rigor and quality of the scientific literature.
So the Navigation Guide is apparently a methodology used to assess and screen for flaws and biases in studies selected for meta analyses, and this is the first time it has been used in a published study.
My guess: it uses AI to screen these studies. Would be interested to see any peer reviewed studies on the Navigation Guide itself.
I have never heard of BMC Environmental Health; it certainly doesn’t appear to be on par with the Lancet, or any of the other prestigious medical journals. Maybe it’s the only journal that would accept the article for publication- we don’t even know if it was peer reviewed before publication.
Using the prestigious name of Mt. Sinai to assert the validity of this meta analysis is a logical fallacy known as Argument from Authority, and is not considered to follow a scientific methodology.
Remember, the study “proving” vaccines caused autism was published in a prestigious medical journal (the Lancet?) before being peer reviewed and debunked and eventually withdrawn.
So, at this point, no
conclusive statement can be ethically or scientifically made concerning a link between gestational acetaminophen use and autism.
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