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Scientists quit journal board, protesting ‘grossly irresponsible’ study claiming COVID-19 vaccines kill – Science (Meredith Wadman | July 2021)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Human Research Ethics, Research Integrity on July 27, 2021
Keywords: Human research ethics, Institutional responsibilities, Journal, Medical research, Peer review, Publication ethics, Research results

The Linked Original Item was Posted On July 1, 2021

A woman wearing a face mask looking through the window of her house with uncertainty

Several respected virologists and vaccinologists have resigned as editors of the journal Vaccines to protest its 24 June publication of a peer-reviewed article that misuses data to conclude that “for three deaths prevented by [COVID-19] vaccination, we have to accept two inflicted by vaccination.”

This story points to our need for more rigour when it comes to the publication of potentially controversial findings. Our approach can’t just rely on the reviewers but also requires some level of rigorous editorial review.

Since Friday, at least six scientists have resigned positions as associate or section editors with Vaccines, including Florian Krammer, a virologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Katie Ewer, an immunologist at the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford who was on the team that developed the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Their resignations were first reported by Retraction Watch.

“The data has been misused because it makes the (incorrect) assumption that all deaths occurring post vaccination are caused by vaccination,” Ewer wrote in an email. “[And] it is now being used by anti-vaxxers and COVID-19-deniers as evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are not safe. [This] is grossly irresponsible, particularly for a journal specialising in vaccines.”

Scientists quit journal board, protesting ‘grossly irresponsible’ study claiming COVID-19 vaccines kill
Critics say authors of Vaccines report misrepresented Dutch data

Related Reading

Academic journals, journalists perpetuate misinformation in their handling of research retractions, a new study finds – TheJournalisResource (Denise-Marie Ordway | May 2021)

Science Had a Misinformation Problem Before COVID. Scientists Want to Fix It – Vice (Sarah Wells | May 2021)

Misinformation in and about science (Papers: Jevin D. West and Carl T. Bergstrom | April 2021)

(Peru) Scandal over COVID vaccine trial at Peruvian universities prompts outrage – Nature (Luke Taylor | March 2021)

Continued post-retraction citation of a fraudulent clinical trial report, 11 years after it was retracted for falsifying data (Papers: Jodi Schneider, et al | October 2020)

The epic battle against coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories – Nature (Philip Ball & Amy Maxmen | May 2020)

Pseudoscience and COVID-19 — we’ve had enough already – Nature (Timothy Caulfield | April 2020)

Editorial Mutiny at Elsevier Journal – Inside Higher Ed (Lindsay McKenzie | January 2019)

Clickbait and impact: how academia has been hacked – LSE Impact Blog (Portia Roelofs & Max Gallien | September 2017)

Resignations at ‘Third World Quarterly’ – Inside Higher Ed (Colleen Flaherty | September 2017)

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