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ArticleFASEB bioAdvances2020

Abusing science.

Joseph D McInerney, Michael J Dougherty

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in FASEB bioAdvances, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

2 authors.

Joseph D McInerneyBiological Sciences Curriculum Study National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics American Society of Human Genetics Lutherville MD USA.
Michael J DoughertyDepartment of Pediatrics University of Colorado School of Medicine Aurora CO USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The perversion of science in the interest of ideology and greed is not a new phenomenon, but a public that is largely scientifically illiterate now is besieged by "alternative facts" and well-designed efforts to discredit legitimate science on topics ranging from vaccines to climate change. Here, we examine three topics rooted in biology and biomedicine-creationism, harms from tobacco, and opioid addiction-to show that those purveying misinformation employ a consistent pattern of intellectual dishonesty to delegitimize science that challenges their ideological positions. Individual scientists and the scientific community at large should confront and counter these attacks on the intellectual integrity that is at the heart of the scientific enterprise.

Indexed as

creationismideologyintellectual dishonestymisinformationopioidsscientific illiteracytobacco

Identifiers

PMID33089075
PMCPMC7566036

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