This is my hope and assumption of what is going on. we'll see soon!
My guess is the problem is internal pressures from every which way--and little to do with persuading anyone at Cochrane at this point about the...
my guess is really no better than anyone else's at this point. If the authors would agree to the withdrawal, that would obviously make it easier....
I can't disagree with this reasoning. Although I could see a review in which it was explained that all the studies have a high risk of bias and...
good point.
I just wrote this above but to respond directly--I took this to mean that the exercise review overall needs to be updated--and I interpreted that...
I didn't take that to necessarily mean that Larun would get another chance. It could mean they want to give her a gracious way to withdraw and to...
Yeah, only a dozen or so actually showed up--apparently there was the chess championships and a Norwegian guy was winning or something, so people...
so who do I write to exactly?
I try to stay away from speculating on motives, although not always successfully, because in the end I have no way of knowing what they are...
I could have written that. But you can write something up as a prospective trial even if it weren't prospectively registered. So I just meant they...
well, the "leading light"--but I'm not sure how brightly it's actually shining.
Thanks, Sasha. This has been an incredibly rewarding project for me and I'm glad it seems to be finally working to shake things up.
No, I don't think it can. I have tried to get a copy of the letter but Bristol claims not to have it.
I doubt Cochrane would have taken this step unless they felt strongly about it and believed they could make it stick. The article clearly was a...
I really don't know. CME courses need to be approved in advance and so on. I don't know how one would deal with a situation like this.
Yes, I would think we can assume this is likely to have happened.
I would agree with this point. It's an odd step but perhaps a potentially significant one. I guess we'll have to see if it is followed by other...
Yes, luckily I have not been asked to give my talk in Norwegian!!
This is true, I think. The change is in what people are saying publicly and the obvious inability to advance cogent arguments in support of stupid...
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