Before I get your views on directing the committee in terms of the evidence we should look at.... In 2013, the U.K. Children's Commissioner asked academics from Middlesex University to review all the available evidence about the effect of pornography on adolescence, so they did a meta-sample as well. They excluded articles that had a very high or particular ideological angle and articles that had methodological problems. They ranked the quality and relevance of papers and gave them a strength rating of high, medium, or low. They reviewed 40,000 papers, but only 276 met their criteria.
In your view, should this committee be cautious about the independence and objectivity of available research? How should evidence be weighted in our study?