The Cochrane Editors’ comments

Attempts to discredit authors and underplay editors’ mismanagement of review A122 continue with a very thin smokescreen.

I was one of the three people who wrote the protocol for Cochrane Review A122—Physical Interventions to Interrupt or Reduce the Spread of Respiratory Viruses in 2006, and I have worked on all five updates. I will try to summarise what is a very confusing situation.

There are two issues here:

Cochrane editorial mission control throwing us under the bus bec…