Research at the heart of a federal case against the abortion pill has been retracted
Sage, the publisher of the journal, retracted the study on Monday along with two other papers, explaining in a statement that “expert reviewers found that the studies demonstrate a lack of scientific rigor that invalidates or renders unreliable the authors’ conclusions.”
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Sage also looked into the concern that the authors had conflicts of interest—finding that they did. All but one of the study’s authors were linked to one or more anti-abortion advocacy organization, despite that they all had declared no conflicts of interest when they submitted the article for publication or in the article itself, Sage noted. Moreover, one of the peer-reviewers—tasked with reviewing the study manuscript and deciding if it was worthy of publication—was also associated with the Charlotte Lozier Institute at the time of the review. Sage determined that the peer review process was compromised and noted that the same reviewer also reviewed two other studies led by Studnicki—the two other studies Sage retracted, one published in 2022 and the other in 2019.
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