Evidence synthesis as public infrastructure

As scholarly output explodes, systematic evidence‑synthesis (living reviews, registries, funded synthesis teams) should be treated and financed like public infrastructure so policy, clinicians and journalists rely on aggregated findings rather than single studies. Building this capacity means centralized funding, standards for living reviews, and institutional pathways to feed syntheses into regulators and media. — Framing synthesis as infrastructure reframes where governments and funders must invest to prevent harm from misleading studies and to speed policy that relies on robust knowledge.