Lysenko and the Screwworm Fly-When Politics Interferes with Science and Public Health.

Carlos Brisola Marcondes, Angelo Canale, Giovanni Benelli

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

1citing papers in PubMed

–field-weighted citation impact, top 93% of its field

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

Political and biological reality checks.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Carlos Brisola MarcondesDepartamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis 88040-900, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-6697-4148

Angelo CanaleDepartment of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, via del Borghetto 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0706-474X

Giovanni BenelliDepartment of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, via del Borghetto 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8971-6010

University of Pisa · ITUniversidade Federal de Santa Catarina · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the One Health scenario, a deep understanding of the dynamics potentially threatening the development and implementation of useful pest and vector management tools is of key importance. The New World screwworm fly,

Indexed as

DipteraMyiasisPoliticsScienceAnimalsAnimals, DomesticHumansPublic HealthblowfliesCalliphoridaeCochliomyia hominivoraxeradicationgenetic controlmyiasissterile insect technique (SIT)

Identifiers

PMID32937878

DOI10.3390/ijerph17186687

PMCPMC7557419

OpenAlexW3085118550

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.