Cochrane 2025 HPV Review: “Garbage In, Garbage Out” — Bias Table Red Flags (Tomljenović)

Donate : 🙏 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/slobodnipoI Lucija Tomljenović challenges the mainstream headlines around the Cochrane 2025 HPV vaccine review — including the popular claim that it “reduces cervical cancer up to 80%” if given before age 16. Her core point is methodological: she says the review’s own risk-of-bias assessments show that a large share of included studies are rated serious or critical risk of bias for clinically relevant outcomes — which, in her view, makes strong “moderate certainty” conclusions questionable. In short: she argues you can’t build confident policy on weak inputs — even if the brand name “Cochrane” sounds like a gold stamp. Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJTy3oXCzHShsVuJ-zfiGnx96nuR-BNWB WEB: https://slobodnipodcast.hr/?p=1402