After we persisted, publishing a lengthy critique of the paper https://osf.io/9yqxw/ and getting a bit of press, we were invited again to submit a 600-word comment and told the authors would have to respond
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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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We're in exactly the same boat for a (much less serious but still impactful) shark study. Paper received wide attention with false results, we submitted a comment but have yet to hear anything. Meanwhile it's already been cited and in the public domain...
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It's a massive headache I think. The only reason there was any movement at all on this study was that we got some press because it is being used to guide COVID-19 policy
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We have a similar paper published in Switzerland, also on school where the authors simply omitted the school holidays. At least the people behind fact checking took less time bc the flaws were so pathetically obviouspic.twitter.com/JmVo0duLlK
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That is speculative (and histrionic). What is not speculative is the negative effect of closing schools and other lockdown measures.
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That's why you should be careful when you take info from paper's press-release only I've seen refs to this paper in news and net disputes as well, so thanks to
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