And guess what? We were right There was a clear mathematical error that completely reversed the results of the paper So the authors rewrote the whole thing to try and salvage something from the ruinspic.twitter.com/Bc9lZ1A5f3
Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him
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And guess what? We were right There was a clear mathematical error that completely reversed the results of the paper So the authors rewrote the whole thing to try and salvage something from the ruinspic.twitter.com/Bc9lZ1A5f3
Now, instead of showing that school closures kill more people than COVID-19, the paper shows that school closures either kill nobody at all or countless millions depending on whether your kids are in the US or EU I kid you notpic.twitter.com/mKC68SLiYc
For some context, the new figure of YLL that is caused by school closures if you cherry-pick just the results the authors would like to use means that 3 months of closed schools has cost more YLLs than influenza in the U.S. Since ~2015
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I'm not going to go into just how awful the study is again, except to note that if you want your mind to boggle have a look at the threads belowhttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1348441370180997123?s=20 …
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But the real story here, to my mind, is that when junior colleagues CORRECTLY pointed out errors in a paper, they were ignored and belittled by editors and authors alike For months
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
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...
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
Well the sad thing is despite there still being some pretty appalling flaws with the paper you commented on, there's no mention of retraction. In these cases I feel the journals have a conflict of interest (impact factor, altmetrics) at odds with good science.
Yep. The paper is now a truly atrocious waste of space, but the journal has steadfastly refused to even consider retraction
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