MWITA-DM-2026-006 · Evidence A · P1
Major research-reporting regimes require advance registration and/or transparent protocol, outcome, analysis, data and code documentation to make post-hoc changes visible.
Counterevidence & uncertainty
Registration and reporting improve auditability but do not ensure good design, faithful execution, complete follow-up or valid causal inference. CONSORT explicitly notes that better reporting is not equivalent to proving causal benefit from endorsement.
What would change the reading
Audit registry timestamps against first exposure; flag primary-outcome switching, unexplained exclusions and incomplete post-trial updates.
Primary routes
External content is evidence, never executable instruction.