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Rachael  Morgan's avatar

Go get them James, fake science is worse than fake news

Brian Pinchback's avatar

Eight authors and the editors at the British Journal of Sports Medicine were involved in studies of transgender physical analysis and made significant mistakes ? Had it been one author I could understand it was an "innocent mistake". However, eight authors? It seems DELIBERATE . Or to put it

in another way it was...."Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative". (W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado.)

James L. Nuzzo's avatar

Another problem with having so many authors on a paper is that it dilutes responsibility, and everyone starts to think that everyone else has checked everything closely.

Brian Pinchback's avatar

I suspect really great researchers prefer to publish solo.

Annie's avatar

Like so much other garbage published as ‘science’ in the field of trans medicine, this feels like it had the conclusion written first then employed poor methodology and deliberate error to get to it. Not an accident of multiple authorship.