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Originally Posted by jfman
I guess there's also the question of who is funding such studies, and why, when they wouldn't stand up to scientific scrutiny at this stage for any medical authority seeking to make regulatory changes (e.g. to the quality standard of randomised control trials) but they do make good press releases.  |
You can follow through to the preprint
here. The work was done by the Public Health bodies for each of the UK nations plus London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of Strathclyde and Imperial College. All authors have declared that there are no conflicts of interest (see page 18)
The work was funded directly or indirectly in the case of the Universities by the Government.