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atories, thirty fellows of the Royal Society, two of whom are Nobel laureates, accuse it of favouring “desperate headline-seeking” over sound science, to the detriment of public health. “Under the editorship of Richard Horton, the publication of badly conducted and poorly refereed scare stories has had devastating consequences for individual and public health, in the UK and abroad, and carried a high economic cost,” they say.

Favouring “desperate headline-seeking” over sound science? Well who’d have thought?

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  1. oliver Avatar
    oliver

    I never understood why the Lancet did a story about Iraq casualties anyway… is war reporting part of its medical remit?

  2. Andrew Duffin Avatar
    Andrew Duffin

    Um, would that be the same Royal Society whose Vice-President recently tried to lean on the Daily Telegraph to stop publishing stories that were “unhelpful” to the “consensus view” on global warming?
    Just wondering.

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