If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught me anything about science, it's that if you do a "meta-analysis" without reading each paper carefully and critically, you can end up proving anything regardless of its veracity. You cannot replace domain-expert scientists spending huge amounts of time painstakingly going over every detail of many papers to weed out mistakes and fraud in order to write a meta-analysis, with a computer program. Well, at least not until we figure out AGI. Until then, it would be irresponsible to rely on such a program for any clinical decisions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29249686

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...

https://ivmmeta.com/ (Note the long list of things in the right sidebar which the "meta-analysis" shows have huge positive effects on COVID treatment)