My colleagues and I are formally seeking a retraction of the recently published “Identifying airborne transmission as the dominant route for the spread of COVID-19.” The full text of our letter to the PNAS editorial board can be found here. 1/
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It is important that science, especially now, be as rigorous and methodologically sound as possible. However, this paper suffers from numerous and fundamental errors that undermine the foundation of its conclusions. The paper is linked here. 2/ https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/06/10/2009637117">https://www.pnas.org/content/e...
We do not call for a retraction lightly. The letter was written by @NoahHaber @KateGrabowski Nikolas Wada, @goodmanmetrics @JustinLessler and me, & signed by 39 other scientists across many fields. If you read the paper & letter, and agree, please write to PNAS too, or RT. 4/
Finally, this article was Contributed to PNAS. NAS members can contribute 2 articles/yr to PNAS & choose their own reviewers. This subverts strong peer review. Mid-crisis studies, on key topics, in prestigious journals should follow the scientific community’s best practices. 5/5
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