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Surprisingly, not one of the peer reviewers seems to have thought to ask a
basic question: Are the data in the two studies even true? The possibility
of fakery, editor Horton told *NJ*, "did not come up in peer review."
Medical journals can't afford to repeat every scientific study, he said,
because "if for every paper we published we had to think, 'Is this fraud?'
... honestly, we would fold tomorrow

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