Category Archives: public health/safety
Data mishap forces retraction of paper on gun laws, domestic killings
Posted by data issues, oxford university press, public health/safety, united states
inHow much cancer stems from diabetes, obesity? Lancet journal swaps high-profile paper
A frustrated former editor asked a publishing group for help. He didn’t like what they said.
Don’t like a paper, but don’t want to retract it? Just issue an “editorial statement”
Study that said hate cuts 12 years off gay lives fails to replicate
For the second time, researchers retract — then republish — a vaccine paper
Journal retracts “hopelessly flawed” paper linking cell phone radiation to pain
A journal is retracting a paper linking radio waves from cell phone towers to pain in amputees, despite objections from the authors. “Anthropogenic Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields Elicit Neuropathic Pain in an Amputation Model,” originally published Jan. 16, 2016 in PLOS ONE, suggested that rats with injured nerves experienced pain when exposed to the type of […]
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RAND re-releases withdrawn report modelling child mistreatment
A think tank has re-issued a report on child welfare in the U.S., six months after it pulled the document amidst criticism from dozens of researchers. The report offered policy recommendations for improving the child welfare system, based on numerical modeling conducted by researchers at the RAND Corporation. RAND pulled the initial version of the […]
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Posted by psychology, public health/safety, united states
in“This is about saving kids’ lives:” Authors update pivotal car seat safety results
A BMJ journal has published an updated analysis of a 2007 paper that shaped current car seat safety recommendations, which reports less conclusive findings about the safest way to install the seat. The updated analysis follows an expression of concern the journal Injury Prevention added to the paper in June 2017, after the authors and […]
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Posted by bmj, Injury Prevention, public health/safety, united states
inCaught Our Notice: To know if someone’s been vaccinated, just asking isn’t enough
Title: Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Preconception Period Among Women of Reproductive Age in Rural China – A Nationwide Study What Caught Our Attention: When researchers set out to study hepatitis B among women in rural China, and they wanted to know if the women had been vaccinated against the virus, they simply asked them. While […]
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