We believe that the recommendations outlined in this paper can be achieved without compromising scientific rigor, and any efforts to streamline research should be judged based on methodological soundness.
Instead, as our paper shows, the contrarians have presented a variety of contradictory alternatives based on methodological flaws, which therefore have failed to convince scientific experts.
If any of the contrarians were a modern-day Galileo, he would present a theory that's supported by the scientific evidence and that's not based on methodological errors.
Because a scoping review is not intended to assess the quality of studies, emphasis was not placed on methodological rigor of the retained studies.
Finally, the health departments used the Critical Review Form - Qualitative Studies (Version 2.0) to assess the methodological quality of qualitative studies based on the rigor of eight components [ 57].
Finally, based on the rigor of the methods we followed, we trust that teachers in our interview study responded honestly to the questions asked.
The authors also give each study a rating of methodological rigor based on clarity of the study (e.g., description of the sample and methods), quality of the data (e.g., attrition of participants and appropriateness of the instrument), and integrity of the analysis (e.g., systematicity of the analysis and bias in reporting findings).
