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Mass resignation guts board of prestigious Cochrane Collaboration

Governing board of the evidence-based medicine group may now be dissolved entirely.
  1. Inga Vesper
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The board of the Cochrane Collaboration, a prestigious group that reviews health evidence, has been reduced from 13 to 6 members, following a controversial vote to expel a member for the first time in its 25-year existence.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06727-0

Updates & Corrections

  • Update 17 September 2018: This story has been updated to include an excerpt from the Cochrane Collaboration’s policies.

  • Correction 19 September 2018: An earlier version of this story mistakenly said that the critique co-authored by Peter Gøtzsche of the Cochrane Collaboration's HPV vaccine review was published in The BMJ. In fact, it was published in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine.

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