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== Editorial correction == [[File:LP-EstherCrawleyCorrection.jpg|alt=The final version includes acknowledgement from the authors that the study was not fully ICMJE compliant. The process has additionally involved seeking assurance from the authors that the change in primary outcome was not influenced by (positive) findings in the feasibility phase... BMJ policy requires prospective registration of randomised trials but we do not consider a failure to enforce that policy grounds for retraction. - Nick Brown, Editor of Archives of Disease in Childhood (2019)|right|thumb|Extracts from the editorial correction of the SMILE trial for ME/CFS by Esther Crawley et al (2018).]] An [[:Category:List of open letters|open letter]] was sent to the editor of [[Archives of Disease in Childhood]] in January 2018 by Dr [[David Tuller]] and over twenty other signatories for a correction to the serious issues and anomalies in the published paper.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.virology.ws/2018/01/30/trial-by-error-a-letter-to-archives-of-disease-in-childhood/ | title = Trial By Error: A Letter to Archives of Disease in Childhood | last = Tuller | first = David | authorlink = David Tuller | date = Jan 30, 2018 | website = [[Virology blog]]|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2019-07-16}}</ref> <br /> In July 2019, after an investigation by the Archives of Disease in Childhood, and significant correspondence between the study's authors, journal editor Nick Brown, and Dr David Tuller, a lengthy and detailed editorial correction to the SMILE trial was published.<ref name=":1" /> In the correction, Archives of Disease in Childhood published a justification for the journal's refusal to retract the SMILE publication, and a list of many of the issues with the original publication.<ref name=":1" />
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