The article is published, and it includes mortality data comparing Mar-Jun 2020 to Nov-Feb 2019, which makes no sense at all. There's no significant difference. Zero mention of the concerning year on year comparison at all. >
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Replying to @DavidSteadson @RickCarlsson and
Since the Science article was published he has claimed he included this comparison *at the suggestion of a reviewer*, which I find frankly ... well, bizarre? What did he submit, the concerning data that showed the 68% increase? And the reviewer suggested changing it?
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Replying to @DavidSteadson @RickCarlsson and
Or did he just submit the 2020 mortality data with no comparison, and the reviewer suggested comparing it to the immediate 4 months instead of the previous year? None of this seems plausible to me. We *today* now have some data showing the causes of death were likely not covid.
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The problem is lack of transparency in the research and in the editorial process including the peer review. Peer reviewers often request bizarre things. Anyway although data wasn’t strictly available, children dying would be common knowledge in Sweden. >
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Replying to @RickCarlsson @DavidSteadson and
> even with small numbers that big difference wouldn’t have gone unnoticed here. He should still have verified it before submitting though.
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Replying to @RickCarlsson @DavidSteadson and
I understand your point that there are far worse examples of data manipulation, but I don't think that is a reason to downplay what seems to have happened here. Publishing a big claim while hiding data that may contradict it, even if you think it doesn't, is serious. No?
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Replying to @NDLoubere @DavidSteadson and
Yes, it should be corrected. That’s very important. Still, the overall method where it’s up to the author to pool ages as they see fit, rather than following some fixed standard set out before analysis, and the poor review process is the real story. >
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Replying to @RickCarlsson @NDLoubere and
I reckon the real story is that this sort of shoddy study with selective research is so common. The weirdest part about this whole argument is that it's basically reinforced my initial comment - that it sounds like p hacking - but because p hacking is ubiquitous...
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Replying to @GidMK @RickCarlsson and
Would you still consider it p-hacking if the comparison dates were requested by the reviewer as is claimed? If that claim is true then all of the data for those dates was published from the start
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Replying to @JacobGudiol @GidMK and
It’s still p-hacking. It’s very common for reviewers and editors to request that. Further. I’ve had reviewers asking me to remove “uninteresting results” many times...
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I think part of the problem is that people think p-hacking is necessarily research fraud rather than a common and undesirable aspect of our current research environment
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Replying to @GidMK @JacobGudiol and
Exactly. I absolutely want it to become both uncommon and fraud though and I think we’re getting there in time. The major thing is that most p-hackers didn’t realize they dis anything wrong (negligence) but fraudsters planned it (intent)
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