<i>In social sciences, there’s an absolutely massive bias in favor of publishing results that confirm current educated opinion, or that deviate from the consensus in ways that will be seen as quirky or interesting rather than cold or cruel or politically tone-deaf.</i><p>Isn&#x27;t that a massive problem for meta-analyses? If there are 15 studies supporting the consensus&#x2F;politically-correct position and 5 against it, that might be evidence against the consensus, if less than a third of researchers with against-consensus results have dared to publish their results.