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==Editorial and author corrections== ===Cochrane exercise therapy review=== The highly influential [[Cochrane]] review of exercise therapy for ME/CFS has had repeated corrections and editorial notes. ===Amended ethics statements=== Professor [[Esther Crawley]], a British pediatrician, published eleven different research publications involving children which used an ethics approval number intended for a different purpose. These publications were later corrected to state that there was no ethics approval reference, and that they had been determined to be "service evaluations" which were exempt from requiring approval - however, some researchers and scientists disputed the service evaluation judgement.<ref name="pmid31969354">{{Cite journal | last = | first = | authorlink = | date = Feb 2020 | title = Correction: Obesity in adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome: an observational study|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31969354/|journal=Archives of Disease in Childhood|volume=105|issue=2| pages = e1|doi=10.1136/archdischild-2016-311293corr1|issn=1468-2044|pmc=7025721|pmid=31969354|access-date=|quote=|via=}}</ref> ===SMILE trial === This trial of a therapy called the [[Lightning Process]] was highly controversial, partly because it was a trial involving children as young as eight using a therapy never assessed in adults, which gave safety concerns. This trial, known as the [[SMILE trial]], was republished with corrections after open letter of complaint including scientific criticism and calling for retraction. *[https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/10/e4 Republished corrected article] *[https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2019/07/11/archdischild-2017-313375ednote.full Editor's note]<ref name="smile-correction">{{Cite journal | last = Brown | first = Nick | authorlink = Nick Brown | authorlink2 = | date = Jul 2019 | title = Editor's Note on Correction to Crawley et al 2018|url=https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2019/07/11/archdischild-2017-313375ednote.full|journal=Archives of Disease in Childhood|volume=|issue=|pages=|quote=|via=}}</ref> <div style="margin-right:1em">[[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).]]</div><br /> 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.<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> 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.<ref name="smile-correction" />
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