cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/1159654
Johnson & Johnson has sued four doctors who published studies citing links between talc-based personal care products and cancer, escalating an attack on scientific studies that the company alleges are inaccurate.
J&J’s subsidiary LTL Management, which absorbed the company’s talc liability in a controversial 2021 spinoff, last week filed a lawsuit in New Jersey federal court asking it to force three researchers to “retract and/or issue a correction” of a study that said asbestos-contaminated consumer talc products sometimes caused patients to develop mesothelioma.
Regarding positive results publication, if you haven’t come across it yet these guys do great work showing (by example!) why pre-registration and open data are essential to maintaining trust in science
https://datacolada.org/40