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This “study” has caused tremendous harm. It is used by conspiracy theorists to confirm their biases. Of course, the conspiracy theorists have their own massive conflicts of interest. Meanwhile, Wakefield fortunately had his license pulled, and he is held out as a martyr to “big science.”

All of this takes me back (as so many things do) to Chris Rock’s “Black people vs. N-words” bit and that long-standing urge to separate the “good” Black folks from the ones said to be messing it up for everyone or not performing in ways that fit white middle-class norms. In this case, + masculinity.

Right, I'll just email it to you directly

It's already hard enough to get spread to 7-9 or even 6s. People write mostly pretty good grants!

Somehow the worst people at this not only drone forever, but they're completely disorganized in their comments.

I did find removing the chair comments helped speed things up. And basically banning talking about investigators unless there were issues helped too.

But basically asking people to be more succinct is going to be very susceptible to individual differences.

At all sample sizes!

Was a moose blocking your view or