Talk:Retractions, corrections and expressions of concern in chronic fatigue syndrome research

Idea for new page -- notjusttired (talk) 12:39, August 7, 2019 (EDT)
Suggesting a new page, if there's enough to cover. I haven't been able to find a list of MFS/CFS retractions or calls for retraction anywhere. notjusttired (talk) 12:39, August 7, 2019 (EDT)

Retracted articles

 * XMRV virus

Withdrawn publications

 * Exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome (individual patient data)] - Cochrane - published 2014 withdrawn 2018 - withdrawn as protocol no longer being progressed to a review

Editorial and author corrections
An 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. 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 but the journal refusal to retract the SMILE publication.
 * Cochrane exercise review
 * Amended ethics statement Crawley 2017
 * SMILE trial republished with corrections after open letter of complaint calling for retraction
 * Republished corrected article
 * Editor's note

Expressions of concern

 * A PLOS ONE PACE trial study . The Editors of PLOS One, Iratxe Puebla and Joerg Heber, wrote in PLOS One Blog "Since we feel we have exhausted the options to make the data available responsibly, and considering the questions that were raised about the validity of the article’s conclusions, we have decided to post an Expression of Concern to alert readers that the data are not available in line with the journal’s editorial policy".

Calls for retraction

 * PACE trial main outcome publication - 3 open letters
 * Cochrane exercise review
 * PACE trial PLOS ONE
 * Journal of Health Psychology's special issue on the PACE trial, prior to publication
 * SMILE trial

(significant calls for retraction only, not every call for retraction since pelt like Michael Sharpe ask for so many to be retracted)

Learn more

 * COPE standards link