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- Following charges of flawed statistics, major medical journal . . .
The authors reanalyzed their data without those 1588 participants and found that despite the missteps, the conclusion held: Nuts, olive oil, and fatty fish remained a net positive on heart health, though the conclusions came with somewhat less statistical oomph than in the original paper
- Retracted studies in systematic reviews and clinical guidelines
Retractions can have real consequences in healthcare, as Xu and colleagues have clearly demonstrated in a linked study (doi:10 1136 bmj-2024-082068) 4 The results of retracted papers in healthcare may lead to decisions that do harm, claim false benefits, or in any case lack the desired effect
- The Dangers of Flawed Methodology in Research
In 2020, the scientific literature experienced multiple COVID-19 article retractions from reputable journals reaching millions of healthcare workers, including Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, and Annuals of Internal Medicine 2 Both Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine retracted articles as authors were unable to arrange
- Sources of error in the retracted scientific literature - PMC
Retraction of flawed articles is an important mechanism for correction of the scientific literature We recently reported that the majority of retractions are associated with scientific misconduct In the current study, we focused on the subset of retractions for which no misconduct was identified, in order to identify the major causes of error
- Flawed, futile, and fabricated—features that limit confidence . . .
Common flaws in RCTs include high risk of bias, small sample size, irrelevant outcomes, and lack of power to detect efficacy These flaws can be perpetuated in systematic reviews, which can magnify the impact of inadequate data
- Retractions in the medical literature: how many patients are . . .
Many patients are put at risk by retracted studies These are conservative estimates, as only patients enrolled in published clinical studies were tallied Clinical papers so flawed that they are eventually retracted may put patients at risk
- Why has the number of scientific retractions increased?
One of the major mechanisms of self-correction is retraction of flawed work (Steen, 2011a, 2011b), and the rate of retraction of scientific articles has risen sharply in recent years (Cokol, Ozbay, Rodriguez-Esteban, 2008; Steen, 2011c; van Noorden, 2011)
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