Can I quote that last sentence at the beginning of my dissertation?

Reading reviews from different authors helps mitigate cherry-picking, but I still don’t know how credible their arguments are because I don’t know how trustworthy the underlying empirical evidence is. To some extent, science involves some kind of faith, whether we like it or not.

Not sure if this works: we found publication bias for brain stimulation studies of embodied language comprehension, but using a novel meta-analytic technique (z-curve analysis) that differs from the more usual approaches.

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