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A crook on a laptop using a mask on a stick to conceal his identity.

Open peer review is the key to tackling public health misinformation – Times Higher Education (Rebecca Lawrence | June 2022)

We have written recently about the real damage been done to the academic record, public trust and safety by dodgy theories and crackpot treatments that appear in questionable publishers. As discussed in this Times Higher Education piece, one way to tackle this problem would be to lift the veil on peer review. This will be a challenging change, but it could stop the spread of misinformation before it starts. We have included links to eight related items.

Artwork of a view over Chinese misty mountains.

(China) China expands control over genetic data used in scientific research – Nature (Smriti Mallapaty | May 2022)

Some commentators outside of China might observe these guidelines are focussed in the wrong area. Time and again serious concerns about donor consent for research that utilised removed organs and collected materials. What is needed, is not about state control, but donor consent.

Digital artwork of a baby overlaid genetic represenations.

Returning individual research results in international direct-to-participant genomic research: results from a 31-country study (Papers: Michael Lang & Ma’n H. Zawati | April 2022)

Abstract This paper summarizes the results of a 31-country qualitative study of expert perspectives on the regulation of international “direct-to-participant”

A funny cartoon of a gameshow where participants are urged to sell essential organs.

Friday afternoon’s funny – Human biospecimens for sale

This Don Mayne cartoon raises so many serious human research ethics matters in a lighthearted way. Many national Human Research Ethics arrangements/codes/statements prohibit the sale/purchase of human biospecimens. And with good reason. The last thing that we want to see is the desperate, naive or foolish individuals selling critical parts of their body to secure or win money.

A clinician completing a checklist as they talk to an old woman in a hospital bed.

Ethical commitments, principles, and practices guiding intracranial neuroscientific research in humans (Papers: Ashley Feinsinger, et al | January 2021)

Leveraging firsthand experience, BRAIN-funded investigators conducting intracranial human neuroscience research propose two fundamental ethical commitments: (1) maintaining the integrity of

A 3D illustration of "JUNK SCIENCE" title on a medical document

Ongoing Citations of a Retracted Study Involving Cardiovascular Disease, Drug Therapy, and Mortality in COVID-19 (Letters; Todd C. Lee, MD, et al | August 2021)

In Spring 2020, early during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2 prominent studies that used a database from Surgisphere, a little-known company,

A funny cartoon about warning factors for an assistant who will be working in a blood lab, with vampires involved.

Friday afternoon’s funny – One… one wonderful assistant (delivered in a Sesame Street Transylvanian accent)

There are key warning and other factors individuals should look out for before accepting a job in a laboratory, clinic or other workplaces. They may not be quite as funny as those depicted in this Don Mayne cartoon. Nevertheless, the attractiveness of the job is not purely a matter of salary amount, location, director or career trajectory. A job may be great in that regard, but still be a toxic workplace that could have emotional as well as career costs. We have included links to two related items.

Cartoon graphic of the Statue of Liberty wearing a face mask

(US & China) US COVID origins report: researchers pleased with scientific approach – Nature (Amy Maxmen | August 2021)

Following the torrent of supposition and innuendo, it is refreshing to get a more measured and sober reflection on the Wuhan Leak theory and the origins of COVID19. No one can know for sure. The lack of transparency hasn’t helped. The media hysteria will no doubt continue, but perhaps the rest of us can move on. We have included links to two related items.

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Open peer review is the key to tackling public health misinformation – Times Higher Education (Rebecca Lawrence | June 2022)

Ongoing Citations of a Retracted Study Involving Cardiovascular Disease, Drug Therapy, and Mortality in COVID-19 (Letters; Todd C. Lee, MD, et al | August 2021)

Friday afternoon’s funny – One… one wonderful assistant (delivered in a Sesame Street Transylvanian accent)

(US & China) US COVID origins report: researchers pleased with scientific approach – Nature (Amy Maxmen | August 2021)

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