This is abhorrent. How can any journal get away with this and not be blackballed for having a known history of doing this?!
Several-Opposite-746 on
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.
HyperSpaceSurfer on
Is this just legal?
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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.
river_tree_nut on
Freakonomics did a 2 part series on this. It’s amazing how rampant it is.
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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.