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International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(5):944-945; doi:10.1093/ije/dym174
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Editorial

Commentary: On ‘Quality in epidemiological research: should we be submitting papers before we have the results and submitting more hypothesis generating research?’

Sander Greenland

Departments of Epidemiology and Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

E-mail: lesdomes@ucla.edu

Accepted 7 August 2007

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Lawlor's excellent proposals to mitigate publication bias1 complements other ideas, such as (truly) blind review of completed studies by blanking-out study results. Nonetheless, despite my general agreement with Lawlor, I think certain conventional presumptions in the editorial are in error and have blinded discussants to important sources of publication bias.

Most authors write as if publication bias is chiefly about tendency to not publish null results. Studies linking products with hazards provide examples to the contrary, as in the Vioxx debacle (one . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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