David Tuller: Trial By Error: A Letter to Health Officials About BMJ’s Lax Editorial Standards

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 when it comes to two papers that should never have been accepted for publication. One violated BMJ’s policy that all trials must be properly prospectively registered, with no participants recruited beforehand. The other violated official U.K. guidelines by exempting itself from ethical review on false grounds…

 

Well they won't be able to say they didn't know. That's two MPs and the senior medical advisor to the government whom Dave T has made aware of the issues, and the risk to children.

I think @dave30th is earning his money!