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…
No Retraction For You! Review Panel Exonerates Medical Journal In Statin Kerfuffle
August 2, 2014 by Leave a Comment
BMJ Names Panel Members To Review Disputed Statin Articles
May 19, 2014 by Leave a Comment
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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