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Covid Bias at the BMJ

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This week, Ioannidis and his colleagues published a paper on COVID-19 advocacy bias in the BMJ, concluding that the ‘BMJ had a strong bias in favour of authors advocating an aggressive approach to COVID-19 mitigation.’

The authors don't hold back, saying the ‘BMJ had massive bias towards specific COVID-19-related advocacy favouring aggressive measures’. …

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