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"#CDC Researchers Ordered to #Retract Papers Submitted to All Journals"

'... #Banned terms must be scrubbed from CDC-authored manuscripts ...'

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faustfiles/114043

"The #CDC has instructed its scientists to #retract or pause the publication of any research manuscript being considered by any medical or scientific journal, not merely its own internal periodicals…The move aims to ensure that no "forbidden terms" appear in the work. The policy includes manuscripts that are in the revision stages at journal (but not officially accepted) and those already accepted for publication but not yet live."
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faustfiles/114043

I trust MedPage Today, where this news appeared. But it only cites the author's Substack newsletter, which in turn cites nothing. Can anyone confirm this report?

#Retractions #ScholComm #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

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Plane spotting at YYZ... close enough to see all the details when the time came to #retract the landing gear after takeoff.

A blue and white WestJet plane takes off from Pearson International in Toronto. The plane is painted in the corporate colours: teal and blue on a white background. The sky is cloudy and grey. The top of a barbed wire fence is visible, bottom right. My photo, 2018.

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Today’s word is #Retract

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Tomorrow's word will be #Film

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Aerial view of a large stadium with a partially closed retractable roof, surrounded by roads, buildings, and parking areas.

I enjoyed watching these kids so much, I had to take a short video. I don’t think the bungees would expand and #retract as easily if I were doing it, though.

#DailyChatPix #Retract

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Tomorrow's word will be #Retract

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A brick building with a metal fire escape staircase.

has anyone heard more about #MadInAmerica’s change petition to get the #APA’s American #Journal of #Psychiatry to #retract the STAR*D #fraudulent #misrepresentation of an inflated 67% remission rate, (in fact closer to 35%, and “Only 3% of the 4041 patients who entered the trial had remitted and then stayed well and in the trial to its end.”)?

seems this deserves more visibility in the press. 67% becoming 3% seems like #JohnOliver territory. #prozac #fluoxetine #fraud

https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/10/the-american-journal-of-psychiatrys-answer-to-mia-a-silence-that-speaks-volumes/

the first three paragraphs in a screen capture from the Mad In America article from October 28, 2023 by Robert Whitaker, titled “The American Journal of Psychiatry’s Answer to MIA: A Silence that Speaks Volumes”, showing, “On September 9, Mad in America set up a petition on change.org urging the American Journal of Psychiatry to retract its 2006 article that told of a 67% remission rate in the STAR*D trial. The case for doing so was straightforward: In August, Ed Pigott and colleagues, having obtained patient-level data through the “Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials” initiative, published a paper in BMJ Open that told of how the remission rate in that trial was actually 35%. In their paper, they detailed the various protocol violations that the STAR*D authors had employed to inflate the remission rate to nearly double that number.
In our MIA Report on the STAR*D scandal, we told of how the call to retract the 2006 paper presented American psychiatry with a defining moment:
The American Psychiatric Association, and the international community of psychiatrists, could take a great step forward in regaining public trust if they spoke out about the STAR*D fraud and requested a retraction of the published articles. Doing so would be an action that told of a profession’s commitment, as it moves forward, to uphold research standards, and to provide the public with an honest accounting of the “evidence base” for psychiatric drugs.

Davis Polk rescinded job offers from three Fall Associates (ours arrive in two weeks) because they signed on to that notorious letter.
#letter #support #palestine #ivy #league #students #sign #israel #terrorist #attack #placing #blame #law #firm #retract #rescind #job #offers to #fall #associates https://www.nbcnews.com/business/corporations/harvard-letter-israel-columbia-ivy-davis-polk-law-firm-student-rcna120881

Opinion piece in Scientific American by Ivan Oransky & Adam Marcus of the blog Retraction Watch says it's time for #science #publishers & #universities to stop delaying when it's time to #retract #journal #articles that contain #SpeciousData & #ManipulatedImages: https://tinyurl.com/5y4b433e . #Bookstodon

With our #SiskinIM apps, you have greater control over your messages. After sending a message, you can easily #correct or #retract it by long-pressing it in your ongoing conversation. This ensures that any errors or typos can be fixed before the recipient fully absorbs the message, allowing for #clear and #accurate communication even after hitting the "send" button.

A classic #LetterToEditor:

"We want to congratulate our colleagues on this impressive work that is a true #TourDeForce. Also, we think it's entirely flawed & should be retracted."

Then lists reasons A, B, and C to #retract, where:
A - is clearly accommodated in the study design;
B - relies on critics misunderstanding a meaning of one word as being the exact opposite of what it is; &
C - has no discernible impact on conclusions & is listed as a limitation.

#ScientificPublishing #PeerReview