No, this paper on strip clubs and sex crimes was never gonna get retracted. Also, a reminder of the importance of data quality, and a reflection on why researchers often think it’s just fine to publish papers using bad data under the mistaken belief that these analyses are “conservative” or “attenuated” or something like that.

Brandon Del Pozo writes: Born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn in the 1970’s, I came to public health research by way of 23 years as a police officer, including 19 years in the NYPD and four as a chief of police in … Continue reading → …