Now, remember, this is not a minor paper Altmetric of 3,400, in dozens of news articles, and it's been cited by the WHO and EU already This paper is impacting school reopening policy across the globepic.twitter.com/gKTbYLXk4h
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Meanwhile, the paper has been cited a dozen times academically, is in planning and policy documents across the world, despite the fact that all of this happened when the work was quite simply wrong
Now, it's very hard to guess at the impact of such a paper, positive or negative But it is entirely possible that this study has literally killed people through the errors of the authors Who have called us "trolls" for pointing out the mistakes
I should also note that Ilya and I get literally nothing for all of this. We have spent something like 50 hours each carefully identifying errors, writing letters, editing them down etc for no pay, mostly after work and on weekends
Sounds all wrong. Interesting in the context of whether scientists are or aren't being silenced. Suggests there is silencing going on.
It’s a common sad story! It takes such courage for junior colleagues to point out errors or flaws in the work of senior scientists. Very depressing that more often than not the system punishes rather than rewards them for doing so.
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