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  1. T

    Special edition of the journal Work with at least 12 articles on ME/CFS

    Some or all of these are worthy of their own threads, but I'm not going to set up those threads at this time. From: Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks Source: Work Preprint Date: June 16, 2020 Guest Editor: Amy Mooney ___ Jacobs K. From the Editor. Work. 2020...
  2. Sly Saint

    Article: Open-access science funders announce price transparency rules for publishers- May 2020

    full article here https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/open-access-science-funders-announce-price-transparency-rules-publishers#
  3. Sly Saint

    Why Bother With Medical Journals and Whether They Are Honest? By Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ

    https://www.crossfit.com/health/the-trouble-with-medical-journals-section-2
  4. ladycatlover

    Predatory journals: no definition, no defence. 2019 Agnes Gruidneiwicz et al.

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03759-y My bolding above. Hmm, I wonder which journals that reminds me of... Lancet and BMJ anyone?
  5. ladycatlover

    ‘We badly need to change processes’: How ‘slow, opaque and inconsistent’ journals’ responses to misconduct can be, Nov 2019, Retraction Watch

    ‘We badly need to change processes’: How ‘slow, opaque and inconsistent’ journals’ responses to misconduct can be.
  6. Andy

    Evaluation of spin in abstracts of papers in psychiatry and psychology journals, 2019, Jellison et al

    Open access at https://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2019/07/04/bmjebm-2019-111176#T2
  7. Sly Saint

    How should medical journals deal with errors?

    From 2012 this next bit is rather ironic to say the least https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3284292/ From July 2019: Fixing Errors in a Published Paper: Tips for Authors What Constitutes an Error? Journals’ Response to Errors Do the Right Thing full article here...
  8. Sly Saint

    Magical treatments and (lack of) peer review

    eta:hmm, maybe he draws a magic circle and says stop?
  9. MeSci

    Look out for Predatory Journals

    Physician's First Watch May 28th, 2018 Predatory Journals Are Such a Big Problem It’s Not Even Funny I’ve made fun of academic spam numerous times on this site. It’s those emails from dubious “predatory journals,” written in cheerful but awkward prose, with flowery praise and open...
  10. Forbin

    Entire issue of Post Graduate Medical Journal (11/1978) devoted to ME

    I'm not sure that I've seen this linked elsewhere, but the entire November 1978 issue of the Post Graduate Medical Journal was devoted to ME and is online. It includes articles by Melvin Ramsay and J. Gordon Parish among others. I thought it might be of historical interest to some. Here, ME is...
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  11. Andy

    University College London launches open access megajournal to help solve the world’s biggest challenges

    https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0118/ucl-launches-open-access-megajournal
  12. Andy

    Article: It’s official: When journals behave badly, there could be some punishment

    https://retractionwatch.com/2017/12/19/official-journals-behave-badly-punishment/ I doubt we should get out hopes up about the Lancet getting any punishment though.
  13. Sly Saint

    Is it time for another enquiry on Peer Review?

    No recent news article on this but thought given all the recent 'new treatments' popping up and dodgy research papers it is worth discussion. I found this interesting article from the Guardian (Sept 2011). Publish-or-perish: Peer review and the corruption of science | David Colquhoun "But it...
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