How can I evaluate the quality of research results?

Sometimes it takes a generation (twenty years) to know the effects of a drug. An example was diethylstilbestrol (DES): Children born to mothers who took DES during pregnancy did not develop cancer until they were teenagers. How many subjects were in the study?

(A study that has only fifty people, rather than thousands, cannot be generalized to an entire population of potential users of the drug). Were the people studied similar enough to you (in characteristics such as age, race/ethnicity, and number and types of conditions) that the findings may be helpful for your situation? Who sponsored the study?

Did the study ask people to remember a behavior in the past? (Many times these studies are inaccurate because people do not always remember a past behavior or they answer in a way that will "help" the researcher). How were the so-called side effects (all effects) considered?

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.