
Eine medizinische Fachzeitschrift sagt, die Fallberichte, die sie seit 25 Jahren veröffentlicht, seien in Wirklichkeit Fiktion
A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction

Eine medizinische Fachzeitschrift sagt, die Fallberichte, die sie seit 25 Jahren veröffentlicht, seien in Wirklichkeit Fiktion
A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction
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This is abhorrent. How can any journal get away with this and not be blackballed for having a known history of doing this?!
The more descriptive headline should have been the article’s first sentence.
A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional.
Is this just legal?
Except all of them weren’t fictional. They just didn’t bother to fact check which ones were and which ones weren’t. So now some of the true accounts are being „corrected“ to say they are fictional. Such complete laziness.
Freakonomics did a 2 part series on this. It’s amazing how rampant it is.