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@Nightfall 4906 wrote:
http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20120911/fish-oil-fizzles-for-fighting-heart-attack-stroke
The big problem with this study is that it is not an actual scientific experiment to test the effectiveness of Fish Oil in heart disease prevention.
Rather this is a Meta-study. It reviews numerous studies and takes the average of the average result.
The biggest problem of this way of analyzing the data is that bad studies can cancel out good studies. Doses aren’t taken into account. More often than not, the results of a meta study is negative as a result.
Here’s another meta study which shows fish oil is effective : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19148838
Meta studies are cheap ways to get a research paper published. They are not scientific studies. They are statistical cat fights. I would approach any meta study with a lot of skepticism.
Meta studies are the equivalent of relying on gossip papers for news.
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