Mistakes in peer-reviewed papers are easy to find but hard to fix, report David B. Allison and colleagues.
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D.B.A. is on multiple editorial boards and receives financial compensation from Frontiers in Genetics, Obesity and The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. A.W.B. And K.A.K. are on the editorial board for Frontiers in Nutrition Methodology, but receive no compensation in their roles.
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Allison, D., Brown, A., George, B. et al. Reproducibility: A tragedy of errors. Nature 530, 27–29 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/530027a
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