After blogging at bedtime concerning manipulation of science in public health, I awoke this morning to a related story in today's New York Times explaining why none of us should take great comfort in the "peer review" process of medical journals and highlighting how journals and authors "spin" their stories by pre-empting the findings with news releases before anyone else has seen the study. Our experience confirms that practice: witness how NHLBI released the DASH-Sodium study data; reporters were calling me before the study was available asking for a response, but how do you respond responsibly when you have only the author's news release as the "data" upon which to comment?
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