Research & Intelligence
Evidence Before Opinion
Scientific Evidence Review, Literature Assessment & Citation Verification Handbook
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About this book
Learn how to evaluate scientific claims without confusing confidence, citation count or prestige with evidence.
Evidence Before Opinion is a 49-page professional handbook for researchers, technical writers, AI builders, students, consultants and founders who need to determine whether a scientific claim is supported, partly supported, contradicted, unresolved or simply under-evidenced.
The book covers claim definition, literature selection, citation verification, publication status, direct versus indirect evidence, contradictory studies, null findings, replication, transparent evidence weighting and calibrated conclusions.
It also includes common failure modes, a worked evidence-review example, review templates, evidence registers, assumption tracking and decision records.
The aim is not to produce reassuring conclusions. It is to produce conclusions that remain defensible when somebody checks the sources.
Inside
- Claim-definition framework
- Citation-verification workflow
- Evidence weighting method
- Worked review example
- Templates, registers and decision records