Guest Post — Can Inadequate Corrections Turn Misinformation into Disinformation?
Could the failure of a journal to visibly correct known errors in a publication, thereby propagating false information, be considered disinformation?
Alison Avenell is a medically trained clinical biochemist and a Professor at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Could the failure of a journal to visibly correct known errors in a publication, thereby propagating false information, be considered disinformation?
No one questions the critical importance of a reliable biomedical literature, so why is achieving and maintaining publication integrity so fraught?