Question re: Meta-Analysis


I have a question about a term used in a recent post:
META-ANALYSIS OF DATA--

If a statin company wanted to prove that statins do not cause
cancer, would it be possible to do the following:

Step 1
Secretly do a Meta-Analysis of Data of 50 studies.

Step 2
Eliminate any of the studies that showed that
statins do cause cancer.

Step 3
Do a Meta-Analysis of Data of the 20 studies that
showed that statins do NOT cause cancer.

Step 4
Release to the news media the results of the
Meta-Anylysis of Data of the 20 studies that
that showed that statins do NOT cause cancer.

They could say in the press release:
The results of previous radomised trials show that
statins do not cause cancer.

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