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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)32177-4/fulltext

full details here: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/lshtm-120-keynote-lecture-alumni-frontline-innovation now on Youtube: oh the irony

How about paying attention to the people negatively impacted by it? Unfortunately there is no process for that and the victims of such unethical research are often vilified and attacked openly, hence the current problem. Lots more work ahead. Blatantly unethical research is growing in some...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(18)30160-9/fulltext Andrew Mente Salim Yusuf Volume 3, ISSUE 9, Pe408-e409, September 01, 2018

I thought we knew about this but I've searched and can't find anything. http://www.healthdata.org/news-release/%E2%80%98activist-editor%E2%80%99-richard-horton-lancet-receives-100000-roux-prize-lifetime-achievement

@dave30th Just watched BBC Newsnight piece on the Lancet apparently knowing about flawed data in one of their publications leading to death in medical practice. Norman Lamb MP has written to the Lancet and claims to be confused by their lack of action despite the publishers of the paper...

http://healthinsightuk.org/2019/02/11/latest-statin-scam-mis-selling-them-to-pensioners/ "A recent article in the Lancet, widely covered in the press, claimed that if everyone in the UK aged 75+ took statins, deaths from heart disease would plummet and 8,000 lives would be saved. Shockingly...

Interesting spotlight on Lancet procedures in another area:

Researching, practising, and debating mental health care Sarb Bajwa Niall Boyce Wendy Burn https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(18)30438-3/fulltext To me this looks like more empty blather from those unwilling to speak out about bad behaviour from their colleagues...

re "defend the rights of the communities they serve" - yeah, and that community certainly doesn't include patients.

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

Short article in online version of The Times today reporting on the letter to the Lancet. Written by Tom Whipple- that the Lancet declined to comment.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(18)30135-X/fulltext

The BPS Brigades Score Another Own Goal Not long ago, Sir Simon scored an own goal by enticing a childhood buddy to enter the PACE debate. That buddy, attorney and social commentator Mike Godwin, soon pronounced the trial—which Sir Simon had called “a thing of beauty”–to be “so profoundly...

http://www.virology.ws/2018/08/13/trial-by-error-open-letter-to-the-lancet-version-3-0/

Editorial: UK life science research: time to burst the biomedical bubble The precariousness of life science research in the UK can also be traced back to a lacklustre approach to research integrity. Research misconduct, questionable research practices, and a reliance on publication numbers as a...

http://www.virology.ws/2018/07/10/trial-by-error-yet-another-appeal-to-the-lancet-with-more-on-board/ As many members will be aware, this forum is now a signatory to the letter, too.

"The Six Habits of Highly Respectful Physicians" by Michael W. Kahn New York Times, DEC. 1, 2008 Not "News", yet still deserves attention IMO.The author is one of the few psychiatrists who signed Vincent Racaniello's / David Tuller's Open letter to the Lancet*...

http://www.virology.ws/2018/06/19/trial-by-error-an-open-letter-to-the-lancet-two-years-on/

" QOF Fiasco 2: ’Immoral’ refusal to learn from mistakes By Jerome Burne Last week I wrote about the great QOF (Quality and Outcomes Framework) fiasco – the 30-billion-pound public health experiment involving the whole UK population without any kind of testing or pilot programs and without...