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== Idea for new page -- [[User:Notjusttired|notjusttired]] ([[User talk: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. [[User:Notjusttired|notjusttired]] ([[User talk:Notjusttired|talk]]) 12:39, August 7, 2019 (EDT) ==Retracted articles == * XMRV virus ==Withdrawn publications == *Exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome (individual patient data)] - [[Cochrane]] - published 2014<ref>http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD011040/abstract</ref> withdrawn 2018<ref name="Cochrane2014" /> - withdrawn as protocol no longer being progressed to a review<ref name=Cochranewithdrawndata> https://www.cochranelibrary.com/content?templateType=full&urlTitle=/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD011040.pub2&doi=10.1002/14651858.CD011040.pub2&type=cdsr&contentLanguage=</ref> ==Editorial and author corrections== *[[Cochrane]] exercise review * Amended ethics statement [https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/2/e1.long Crawley 2017] *[[SMILE trial]] republished with corrections after open letter of complaint 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 | author-link2 = | 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> [[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)|left|thumb|Extracts from the editorial correction of the SMILE trial for ME/CFS by Esther Crawley et al (2018).]] 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" /> ==Expressions of concern == *A [https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0040808 PLOS ONE PACE trial study]<ref name=PlosPACE>https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0040808</ref><ref name=PlosEditorsMay2017>{{Cite journal | first = Iratxe | last1 = Puebla | first2 =Joerg | last2 = Heber| date = 2017-05-02 | title = Expression of Concern: Adaptive Pacing, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Graded Exercise, and Specialist Medical Care for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis|url=https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0177037|journal=PLOS ONE|language=en|volume=12|issue=5| pages = e0177037|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0177037|issn=1932-6203|pmc = 5412692|pmid=28463341|access-date=|quote=|via=}}</ref>. 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".<ref name= PLoSConcernMay2017>{{Cite web|url=https://everyone.plos.org/2017/05/02/data-sharing-in-clinical-research/ | title =Data sharing in clinical research: challenges and open opportunities | last = | first = |authorlink=| date = 2017-05-02 | website = PLoS|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2020-07-19}}</ref> ==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)'' ==See also == *[[List of open letters from researchers]] *[[Intimidation and bullying of PACE trial critics]] *[[Ethical issues]] *[[David Tuller]] *[[:Category:Open letters|Open letters (category)]] ==Learn more == * COPE standards link ==References ==
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