A (very vocal) group of Italian academics has just published a lower-tier study on the lower-tier journal The Lancet Regional Health Europe. The authors publicize it as "Lancet H-R" and say it's groundbreaking. Everybody thinks it's @TheLancet (1/n)
(2/n) The work ( by a PI that has taken the street FOR school reopening) supports, guess what: school reopening! On @medrxivpreprint for months, it got the worst comments by researchers for results and methods. Now Italy's PM cites it. Does he think it's the Lancet? (2/n)
(3/n) That's how a mediocre work published by a mediocre journal becomes "groundbreaking" and influences national policies here. Science experts, take note.
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