Now, it's important to note that, as far as the @JAMANetworkOpen editors and the author was concerned, that was that. We were told to submit a 600-word comment online and if the authors wanted to, they could respondpic.twitter.com/VzRZAaQ8Yr
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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
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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
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All too common, I fear. And the scientists - who have lots of time, peer review etc to get things right - slag off journalists for getting things wrong when they are working at speed against deadlines....
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