Dr David Tuller: Yet Another Go-Round with BMJ-Open

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http://www.virology.ws/2018/03/26/trial-by-error-yet-another-go-round-with-bmj-open/

Trial By Error: Yet Another Go-Round with BMJ Open
26 MARCH 2018
By David Tuller, DrPH

In response to our last letter to BMJ Open about its ethically challenged school absence study, the journal’s editor, Dr. Trish Groves, once again invited us to submit a letter for publication. We have declined.

To recap: In 2011, BMJ Open published a research study that exempted itself from ethical review on the false grounds that it was service evaluation. The journal has consistently defended that decision. I have previously posted six blogs about this deplorable situation: here, here, here, here, here, and here.

So this is Virology Blog’s seventh post on this matter. Here is our exchange.

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Dear Dr Racienello and colleagues

Thank you for your further comments.
To ensure maximum transparency where discussions can be seen by all readers, please submit an eletter to the paper in question at BMJ Open. We will then provide a response as possible.

Best wishes
Trish Groves