‘Prompt and decisive’: Editor says obesity study will be retracted after critique
In February, David Allison came across a study with a familiar problem. The authors of the study purported to show an educational program helped women lose weight, but they had not directly compared the treatment and control groups. Instead, they’d used a statistically invalid method to compare changes within the groups. Allison, the dean at … Continue reading ‘Prompt and decisive’: Editor says obesity study will be retracted after critique