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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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Prestige journals and their prestigious mistakes
On June 24, the journal Nature Scientific Reports published a paper claiming that Earth’s surface was warming by more than what non-anthropogenic sources could account for because it was simply moving closer to the Sun. I.e. global warming was the … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, climate geoengineering, morality, Nature journal, Nature Scientific Reports, retraction index, Science journal
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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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