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Wed Jan 9 21:00:56 GMT 2008

"I'm a politician, Ainsley.  Of course I'm lying."
Leo McGarry, White House Chief of Staff, to a new subordinate  (TV's The
West Wing)

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Jane Harper, PhD(c), RN, ACNP, CCNS, CNRN, CCRN
Rockford, IL
m.jane.harper at osfhealthcare.org

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Subject: Off Topic: Data Bomb ( The Lancet)

http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/databomb/index.htm

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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