No Retraction For You! Review Panel Exonerates Medical Journal In Statin Kerfuffle

An independent review panel has rejected a demand by a prominent researcher that TheBMJ retract two controversial articles. The report largely exonerates the journal’s editors from any wrongdoing. As previously reported, Rory Collins, a prominent researcher and head of the Cholesterol Treatment Trialists’ (CTT) Collaboration, had demanded that TheBMJ retract two articles that were highly critical of statins. Although TheBMJ issued a correction…

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BMJ Names Panel Members To Review Disputed Statin Articles

The BMJ has released the names of an outside expert panel who will decide the fate of two articles that are the subject of a heated dispute. As previously reported, last week the BMJ published a correction to two papers published last year, explaining that both papers had  inaccurately overstated the incidence of the adverse effects of statins. However, a…

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