In an unprecedented effort, health scientists at the University of Washington scrutinized decades of research on red meat consumption and its links to various health outcomes, introducing a new way to assess health risks in the process.

the researchers came up with the burden of proof risk function, a novel statistical method to quantitatively “evaluate and summarize evidence of risk across different risk-outcome pairs.”

https://bigthink.com/health/red-meat-cancer-not-health-risk/

The Burden of Proof studies: assessing the evidence of risk – Nature Magazine – October 2022

https://www.healthdata.org/research-article/burden-proof-studies-assessing-evidence-risk