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My latest letter to Archives of Disease in Childhood I sent the following e-mail today to Dr Nick Brown, the editor-in-chief of Archives of Disease in Childhood, the journal that published the Lightning Process study a year ago. I cc’d Dr Fiona Godlee, editorial director of BMJ, which publishes...

I've only skimmed this article by Richard Smith, former BMJ editor, but thought it looked v interesting, is quite long, so prob not poss for everyone to read, energy-wise. (I hope I am not duplicating - I actually had to go to HOW TO help menu as I so rarely start threads and didn't know what to...

https://www.bmj.com/content/362/bmj.k3745

Free full text: https://bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000299 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2018-000299

Trial By Error: Another Letter to BMJ's Dr Godlee Last week, The Times ran an article about the open letter to The Lancet concerning the PACE trial, quickly followed by a piece in The BMJ. This morning, I e-mailed the following letter to Fiona Godlee, editor-in-chief of The BMJ and editorial...

Only just seen this, not got access yet: https://www.bmj.com/content/362/bmj.k3621.short?rss=1

Not commenting on the safety or otherwise of HPV vaccine, I know nothing much about that topic. Just posting this to show that it is possible to move Cochrane to review their own reviews - in an urgent fashion no less. Time will tell the quality of the review of the original review...

Paul Wicks, Tessa Richards, Simon Denegri and Fiona Godlee: Patient's roles and rights in research Critical voices, including some patient advocates, have likened current approaches to patient involvement to “virtue signalling.”67 They point to an enterprise which remains skewed to serving the...

Trial by Error: Waiting for Godlee This morning I sent another letter to Fiona Godlee, editor-in-chief at The BMJ and editorial director at BMJ. Hopefully she will take action soon on the two pediatric papers whose publication has demonstrated that something is seriously amiss at the journals...

My Letter to Fiona Godlee Earlier today, I e-mailed the following letter to Fiona Godlee, the editor-in-chief at The BMJ and editorial director of BMJ. I cc’d the Health Research Authority, the CFS/ME Research Collaborative, NICE, Carol Monaghan, etc. The subject line: BMJ’s failure to...

Split from the twitter thread. Some discussion of the peer review of the PACE re-analysis article submitted to the BMJ starts from post #1745 of that thread. edit: I also want to point out that this review misrepresents a number of aspects of the paper. The paper submitted to the BMJ was later...

http://www.virology.ws/2018/06/11/trial-by-error-more-letters-about-bmjs-flawed-pediatric-studies/

Edit: Argh, it's four years old! :( Interesting, and one can make comments, @dave30th! https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2014/01/31/richard-smith-medical-research-still-a-scandal/

Trial By Error: A Letter to Health Officials About BMJ’s Lax Editorial Standards http://www.virology.ws/2018/06/06/trial-by-error-an/ 6 June 2018 By David Tuller, DrPH I am not sure what is going on at BMJ and why editors there seem incapable of acknowledging their flawed decision-making...

My Letter to MP Monaghan About BMJ Studies This morning, I sent an e-mail about BMJ to Scottish National Party MP Carol Monaghan. MP Monaghan, a science teacher by profession, has a keen interest in research accountability as well as in the plight of ME/CFS patients. In February, she organized...

BMJ Still "Looking Into Lightning Process Paper" Tuller has received via CC an e-mail from dr. Brown, editor of Archives of Disease in Childhood, stating that they had previously acknowledged receipt of his complaints, are looking into them and will respond fully when ready. Tuller has...

NICE's Consideration of the Lightning Process Here’s an e-mail I sent last Thursday to two key members of the NICE guidance executive, Sir Andrew Dillon and Professor Mark Baker. I also cc’d several stakeholders as well as Fiona Godlee, the editor-in-chief of The BMJ and editorial director of...

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2018/05/21/missing-the-psychosocial-diagnosis-a-form-of-institutionalised-malpractice/ This seems like an attempt to claim more patients for MUS/IAPT programs. Ironically, I was just reading something where the patient was dismissed as having non-cardiac chest pain...

https://www.bmj.com/content/361/bmj.k1463