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by geedy 2766 days ago
Is there a place where major scientific findings are searchable to easily see the level of evidence supporting, whether they have been replicated, etc?
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No, the best you can do is a find a recent review article.

Only rarely will you find direct replications in the case of medical and social research though, so as a heuristic you can just assume the evidence for everything is weak.

Also, this reminds me of that paper where they "discovered" that if you spray fart smell in a room that people are more disgusted by the thought of a guy rubbing "his bare genitals along the kitten’s body". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2562923/

Examine.com does a good job for nutrition/supplements Example: https://examine.com/supplements/melatonin/

I wish there were something approachable like that for other fields.

For health, the Cochrane Library is a pretty good start: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/about-cdsr