There's a new program that will pay folks who have found errors in scientific papers.
I immediately thought of this forum, and all the smart folks here who have found errors! So I thought I'd share it here.
I heard about it on this Science Friday segment (about the last 2 minutes)...
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Sex-Based Differences in Plasma Autoantibodies to Central Nervous System Proteins in Gulf War Veterans versus Healthy and Symptomatic Controls
(note: Dr Klimas is a co-author, and ME/cfs was used as a control but it does not appear to highlight results at first glance)...
When is lack of scientific integrity a reason for retracting a paper? A case study.
Abstract:
This editorial has just come out in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research. It is a discussion of issues that arose from this 2004 publication:
This study is a triple-blinded randomised controlled...
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Full Title:
Using Plasma Autoantibodies of Central Nervous System Proteins to Distinguish Veterans with Gulf War Illness from Healthy and Symptomatic Controls
Gulf War Illness the main focus of the study but they had a control group of 50 people with ME/CFS
My bolding...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/aug/05/disgusting-study-rating-attractiveness-of-women-with-endometriosis-retracted-by-medical-journal?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1596614249
Leonid Schneider's take on this
Undress, the doctors will see you now...
https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m105?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage
(paywalled, no sci-hub link as yet)
see also:
Retraction of WHO guidance on opioid use
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6933427/
The limitations of retraction notices and the heroic acts of authors who correct the scholarly record: An analysis of retractions of papers published from 1975 to 2019
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.1282
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1002/leap.1282
https://retractionwatch.com/2019/04/17/plos-one-pulls-highly-cited-mindfulness-paper-over-undeclared-ties-other-concerns/
Chalk another one up for James Coyne. I'm in two minds about Professor Coyne: his abrasive approach is quite often detrimental, in my view, especially for a patient...
'Spanish elites rally in support of data manipulation' (Jan 2019) by Leonid Schneider, For Better Science
https://forbetterscience.com/2019/01/30/spanish-elites-rally-in-support-of-data-manipulation/
Ideas for PACE...
An article about a retracted research paper in nutrition science and an interesting bit about a professor of epidemiology at Emory using Twitter to crowdsource researchers' scrutiny of the republished paper.
This Mediterranean diet study was hugely impactful. The science just...
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