The Use of Preliminary Scientific Evidence in Public Health: A Case Study of XMRV

Kumanan Wilson and colleagues explain how the rapid response to XMRV as a novel pathogen has highlighted some challenges pertaining to policy-making and editorial responsibilities. The impact on policy and the propagation of the initial scientific information may not cease if the evidence is disprov...

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Autores principales: Wilson, Kumanan, Atkinson, Katherine, Keelan, Jennifer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Policy Forum
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3979645/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24714396
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001623
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description Kumanan Wilson and colleagues explain how the rapid response to XMRV as a novel pathogen has highlighted some challenges pertaining to policy-making and editorial responsibilities. The impact on policy and the propagation of the initial scientific information may not cease if the evidence is disproven and retracted from the peer-reviewed literature, which creates a challenge for regulators and scientific journals. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary
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spelling pubmed-39796452014-04-11 The Use of Preliminary Scientific Evidence in Public Health: A Case Study of XMRV Wilson, Kumanan Atkinson, Katherine Keelan, Jennifer PLoS Med Policy Forum Kumanan Wilson and colleagues explain how the rapid response to XMRV as a novel pathogen has highlighted some challenges pertaining to policy-making and editorial responsibilities. The impact on policy and the propagation of the initial scientific information may not cease if the evidence is disproven and retracted from the peer-reviewed literature, which creates a challenge for regulators and scientific journals. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary Public Library of Science 2014-04-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3979645/ /pubmed/24714396 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001623 Text en © 2014 Wilson et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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