Do not trust the hype.
“These tools to make sense of a body of evidence are one of the most important developments in science over the past few decades. They have the power to identify important conclusions that would never be possible from assessing each underlying study on its own. It’s the scientific equivalent of seeing the forest, not just the trees.”
https://aeon.co/essays/the-life-saving-scientific-knowledge-hiding-in-plain-sight