Category Archives: blood test

04Dec / 2014

Pay $1000 to criticize a bad ‘blood test for depression’ article?

No way, call for retraction. Would you pay $1,000 for the right to criticize bad science in the journal in which it originally appeared? That is what it costs to participate in postpublication peer review at the online Nature Publishing … Continue reading »

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Posted by in blood test, conflict of interest, depression, Ethics, letters to the editor, mental health care, Northwestern University, open access, peer review, Post-publication peer review, Translational Psychiatry

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25Sep / 2014

How to critique claims of a “blood test for depression”

Special thanks to Ghassan El-baalbaki and John Stewart for their timely assistance. Much appreciated. “I hope it is going to result in licensing, investing, or any other way that moves it forward…If it only exists as a paper in my … Continue reading »

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Posted by in blood test, blood transcriptomic biomarker, conflict of interest, David Mohr, depression, Genomics, Northwestern University, omics, primary care

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