A Group of Leading Scientists is calling on PNAS to retract a Nobel Laureate’s paper
Reporter: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN
Mario Molina, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995, was the lead author of the paper now being questioned.
A group of leading scientists is calling on PNAS to retract a paper on the effectiveness of masks, saying the study has “egregious errors” and contains numerous “verifiably false” statements.
The scientists wrote a letter to the journal editors on Thursday, asking them to retract the study immediately “given the scope and severity of the issues we present, and the paper’s outsized and immediate public impact.”
The letter follows heated criticism of two other major coronavirus studies in May, which appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet. Both papers were retracted amid concerns that a rush to publish coronavirus research had eroded safeguards at prestigious journals.
The study now under fire was published on June 11 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The lead author is Mario Molina, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995, with two other scientists, for finding a link between man-made chemicals and depletion of the atmosphere’s ozone layer.
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Mario J. Molina
Original Article under fire
Contributed by Mario J. Molina, May 16, 2020 (sent for review May 14, 2020; reviewed by Manish Shrivastava and Tong Zhu)
The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals
Two major study retractions in one month have left researchers wondering if the peer review process is broken.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/14/health/virus-journals.html
Scientists Letter to the Editor of PNAS
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