BMJ FAIL: The system is broken. (Some reflections on bad research, scientism, the importance of description, and the challenge of negativity)

tl;dr It’s not the British Medical Journal’s “fault” that they published a bad paper. I mean, sure, yeah, it’s 100% their fault, but you can’t fault a journal for publishing the occasional dud. And there’s not really a mechanism for retracting a paper that’s just seriously flawed, if no fraud is suspected. So the system …