Tag Archives: New England Journal of Medicine
The toxic affair between Covaxin and The Lancet
That Covaxin has been leading a ceaselessly beleaguered life is no mystery – but The Lancet journal may not know that it has been pressed into the questionable service of saving the vaccine’s reputation on at least three occasions. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Bharat Biotech, clinical trials, Covaxin, JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, retraction index, scientific publishing, The Lancet
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A non-self-correcting science
While I’m all for a bit of triumphalism when some component of conventional publication vis-à-vis scientific research – like pre-publication anonymous peer review – fails, and fails publicly, I spotted an article in The Conversation earlier today that I thought … Continue reading
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Tagged COVID-19, hydroxychloroquine, New England Journal of Medicine, peer review, science publishing, scientific publishing, The Conversation, The Lancet
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The costs of correction
I was slightly disappointed to read a report in the New York Times this morning. Entitled ‘Two Huge COVID-19 Studies Are Retracted After Scientists Sound Alarms’, it discussed the implications of two large studies of COVID-19 recently being retracted by … Continue reading
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Tagged COVID-19, Elisabeth Bik, hydroxychloroquine, New England Journal of Medicine, New York Times, peer review, preprint papers, preprints, scientific literature, scientific publishing, The Lancet
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Priggish NEJM editorial on data-sharing misses the point it almost made
The editorial expresses fear that people who publish in the journal’s pages could be wrong – cleanly forgetting that replication and revalidation are a big part of science. Continue reading
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Tagged data sharing, funnel plot, impact factor, John Ioannidis, New England Journal of Medicine, reproducibility, retraction index, Simone Schnall, Social Psychology
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