Consensus
Consensus searches peer-reviewed research and extracts key findings to answer questions with citations.
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About Consensus
What it is
Consensus searches scientific papers and answers questions from them. Rather than returning links, it summarises what the literature says on a question and shows how many of the studies it found point which way.
Why it's different
Summarising the weight of evidence rather than handing back a single paper is the useful idea, because the honest answer to most research questions is a distribution and not a finding. The caution is that counting studies is not the same as weighing them: a badly designed study and a large trial each count as one, and the summary cannot tell you which is which. It is a way into a literature rather than an answer, and treating its summary as a conclusion is the mistake it invites.
How people use it
Getting oriented on an unfamiliar scientific question. Checking whether a claim has support in the literature. Finding papers worth reading properly. Read the actual studies behind any answer you intend to rely on, because the summary flattens differences in quality that matter far more than the count does.
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