Studies that Misled the World - a New Series

Follow the two old geezers as we try to size-up the misinformation in biomedical journals.

With a combined experience of reviewing evidence of over 60 years, we have seen them all - or so we thought. From the hospital doc who published the same study four times in different journals to get more days off (1 published paper equalled 1 day off), to “the cat ate my data”, to the nasty undermining of your own publication for woke reasons, to two researchers hanky panky in real life and on paper.

Yes, but these are the outliers, you may be thinking. Well, they could be, but Carl dreamt up a new series for TTE called Studies that Misled the World.

In it, we will periodically showcase the worst examples we know. Poor science, wokery ideology, and appalling editorial practices from none other than the top revered journals, in most cases, flourishing businesses that took advantage of recent events to wage a war on science and free thinking. Forget Putin and Idi Amin; these guys are pros at looking after what is now a rotten edifice, propped up by researchers desperate to increase their…